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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.
What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
