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Exactness is the sublimity of fools.
[Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]
Exactness is the sublimity of fools.
[Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]
Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into read more
Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old in drawing nothing up.
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a
pestle, yet will not his foolishness read more
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a
pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
[Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot read more
A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
[Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.]
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
He is a fool
Who only sees the mischiefs that are past.
He is a fool
Who only sees the mischiefs that are past.
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
