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To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd.
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.
To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd.
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.
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.
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.
Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of
skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival read more
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of
skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly of
credulity.
He is a fool
Who only sees the mischiefs that are past.
He is a fool
Who only sees the mischiefs that are past.
