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Sunday, March 08, 2026
Stupidity
Ezra Pound, letter to Lascelles Ambercrombie, quoted in Noel Stock, The Life of Ezra Pound (1970; rpt. London: Routledge, 2011), p. 159:
Stupidity carried beyond a certain point becomes a public menace.