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“As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 57609cdae50b1bd3765fb6772e13406e899ef464015b48d4c27cf1b614b1e738
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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