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| You quote an isolated sentence from my lecture, and appear to have some difficulty in understanding it. I should have thought that only a sub-human intelligence could have failed to grasp the point, but if it really needs amplification I shall consent to see you at the hour named . . . | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World |  |
| "This affair must all be unravelled from within." He tapped his forehead. "These little grey cells. It is 'up to them'--as you say over here." | Agatha Christie | The Mysterious Affair at Styles |  |
| "I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense." | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield |  |
| Little things affect little minds. | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil |  |
| "The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority." | Henrik Ibsen | An Enemy of the People |  |
| But the dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. | Sir Max Beerbohm | Zuleika Dobson |  |
| "It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be." | Gilbert Parker | The Battle Of The Strong |  |
| I try his head occasionally as housewives try eggs,-- give it an intellectual shake and hold it up to the light, so to speak, to see if it has life in it, actual or potential, or only contains lifeless albumen. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table |  |
| "It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble." | H. G. Wells | The Time Machine |  |
| Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice . . . | George Gissing | New Grub Street |  |