In Shakespeare, probity is the possession of stout-hearted simpletons, such as Florizel, Bassanio, and Duke Orsino. |
People think planners are simpletons, local government idiots, but they're not. |
On the other hand we can quite easily see when we are being treated as if we were just a pack of easily manipulated simpletons. |
He may be a fool, but actual gurning simpletons generally don't make it far in his profession. |
He would spend hours working out the answer to a question that the rest of us simpletons dealt with in an hour. |
I am similarly hopeful that you liberal, subjectivist, collectivist simpletons are roundly agitated and annoyed. |