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“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”

Michel de Montaigne

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The quote means that the speaker likes being around simple, uneducated people because they think those people don't make complicated mistakes in thinking.

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Class Commonsense Education Elitism Ignorance Intellect Irony Philosophy Simplicity Wisdom
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