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The Best Plan Is, As The Common Proverb Has It, To Profit By The Folly Of Others.
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The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly
of others.
-- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD)
-- Natural History, Book xviii, Sect. 31
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