Bishop Horne said it best in 1831.
“Pertness and ignorance will ask in three lines, a question that will take thirty pages of learning and ingenuity to answer. And when this is done, the SAME QUESTION will be triumphantly be asked again the next year, as if nothing had ever been written on the subject.”
Pertness and ignorance will ask in three lines, a question that will take thirty pages of learning and ingenuity to answer.