Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the … - Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

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The Bible is to the theologian what nature is to the scientist, a body of unorganized, or only partly organized facts. God has not seen fit to write the Bible in the form of a systematic theology; it remains for us, therefore, to gather together the scattered facts and to build them up into a logical system.

Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect that there is a thing which you might call the genius of stupidity.

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