How to get the better of stupidity
To get the better of stupidity, we must try to understand its nature.
Stupidity is not an intellectual defect but a moral one. There are many intellectual people who are stupid and many intellectually dull people who are not stupid.
Stupidity is not a congenital defect, but people are made stupid or allow this to happen to them.
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