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"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."

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

"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish."

"That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them."
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"The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows."

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

"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."

"Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts."

"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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