Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid.

Jane Austen
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A person’s idea of what is good and their ability to administer it is not necessarily the same. When people attach themselves to ideas that are popular at the time, they often do so with the hope of getting the credit for it. The ideas are not necessarily good, but people are willing to attach themselves to them due to their popularity. This causes them to come with an ignorance of what is good.

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