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“A fool must now and then be right by chance.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Conversation. Line 96.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 98b7d358f904918b4ea48a162202c3dff09e0826fcfb7f79956c01ed1331ef2b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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“Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.”
Unattributed
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.”
Publius Syrus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.”
Michael de Montaigne
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.”
Plutarch
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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