To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves
If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.