A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

Richard Adams
A thing can be true and still be desperate folly,...
A thing can be true and still be desperate folly,...
A thing can be true and still be desperate folly,...
A thing can be true and still be desperate folly,...
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A thing can be true and still be desperate folly. It's like I told you the other day: the world is full of people who think they know what's best for everyone else and what we should do about it. They're the ones who think we're all stupid and we'll never do anything right on our own, and we're all in danger if we don't follow their lead. I'm not saying you're one of them, but sometimes you seem that way to me. You always seem to know what's best.

Source: Watership Down

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