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Quote #10
Oh really? The sum and total of human wisdom! / Find out how thick and ignorant you really are! / Just wait right here a minute; don't go away. (841-843)
After Strepsiades crashes and burns at the Thinkery (i.e., Socrates kicks him out), he once again wants his son to go in his place. Pheidippides is still resistant, but he eventually comes around… and then ends up using his newly acquired logic against Strepsiades, rather than for him.