Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. by Sydney Harris

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"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own." - Copy to Clipboard
-- Sydney Harris

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