Ah, but only a truly great writer could have come up with: > Start reading books or you're going to look stupid to the people around you Wherein the prose was

Ah, but only a truly great writer could have come up with: > Start reading books or you're going to look stupid to the people around you Wherein the prose wasn’t at all sloppy, the tautology was certainly intentional; the implied audience of “look stupid” could be to people entirely absent of the vicinity!