“No, no. You should never debate an idiot, Shallan. No more than you’d use your best sword to spread butter.” “Oh, but I’m a scholar. I enjoy things with curious properties, and stupidity is most interesting. The more you study it, the further it flees—and yet the more of it you obtain, the less you understand about it!” Wit sipped his drink. “True, to an extent. But it can be hard to spot, as—like body odor—you never notice your own. That said . . . put two smart people together, and they will eventually find their common stupidity, and in so doing become idiots.” “Like a child, it grows the
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