I have met with some of them – very honest fellows who with all their stupidity had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
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It's part of a writer's profession as it's part of a spy's profession to prey on the community to which he's attached to take away information – often in secret – and to translate that into intelligence for his masters whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.
