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"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French Diplomat

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"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."

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George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave."

Andrew Carnegie, American Businessman

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"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way."

Josh Billings, American Comedian

"However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him."

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"Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters."

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"Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government."

"Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime."

"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."

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