When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke. (Barbara Kingsolver)

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

Barbara Kingsolver

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