Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing. In fact, I think I sometimes detect conspiratorial plottings among my friends to protect me against my own lack of sophistication. I don't mind. I suspect that I am never quite as unsophisticated as they think I am, but I don't mind. Isaac Asimov
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I don't mind, I suspect that I am never quite as unsophisticated as they think I am, but I don't mind. Rather than worry about his lack of sophistication, he contented himself with knowing that his friends were trying to protect him against an imagined lack of sophistication. He was obviously not one to worry about what people thought, and he probably had the best of intentions.

Source: In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography, 19201954

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