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Bertrand Russell

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I feel like that intellectual but plain-looking lady who was warmly complimented on her beauty.
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In accepting his Nobel Prize, in December 1950; as quoted in LIFE, Editorials, 'A great mind is still annoying and adorning our age', 26 May 1952. (Russell denied that he had contributed anything in particular to literature.)

 
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