However stupid a fool’s words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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However stupid a fool’s words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
“Pride is his pity, artifice his praise
A mask his virtue, and his fame a blaze;
Insult his charity, his friendship fear,
And nothing but his vanity, sincere.”
Anonymous | “On a Certain Poet”