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The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
