You thought you could treat me the way you did everybody el… - John Barnes

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You thought you could treat me the way you did everybody else and beat me up for being smarter than you. Because you’ve always been the big king of the class, haven’t you, Your Majesty? Well, you’re not anymore. You were never anything but the plain old class bully, and now you’re the ex-bully. And the only reason people are bullies is because they’re stupid.

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John Barnes (born 1957) is an American science fiction author.

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