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Bertrand Russell

“There is a great danger in the tendency to suppose that opposition to authority is essentially meritorious and that unconventional opinions are bound to be correct: no useful purpose is served by smashing lamp-posts or maintaining Shakespeare to be no poet. Yet this excessive rebelliousness is often the effect that too much authority has on spirited pupils.”

Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
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In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
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