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For Words Are Wise Men's Counters,--they Do But Reckon By Them
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For words are wise men's counters,--they do but reckon by them; but
they are the money of fools.
-- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
-- The Leviathan, Part i, Chap. iv
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No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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Fools make feasts and wise men eat them. -- Poor Richard
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. -- Samuel Palme
Fools are certain, but wise men hesitate.
Fools wander, Wise men travel.
Wise words in the mouths of fools oft belie.
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them. -- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
More knave than fool. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book iv, Chap.
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