• I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.

  Source: War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940)

  A. A. Milne
  English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books 1882-1956
  

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1. second-rate
2. first-rate
3. majority
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I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking. by : A. A. Milne

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