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Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. all our difficulty comes with the others. when did you meet a workman who believes the papers? he takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles....he's our problem. we have to recondition him. but the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. they're all right already. they'll believe anything.
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Why You Fool, It's The Educated Reader

C. S. Lewis
Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. all our difficulty comes with the others. when did you meet a workman who believes the papers? he takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles....he's our problem. we have to recondition him. but the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. they're all right already. they'll believe anything.
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