Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance. (Hendrik Willem van Loon)

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

Hendrik Willem van Loon

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