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“A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that 's never read,-- To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Old Fortunatus.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ff74ae4bcff45a9a982582aff2ea9fec74f7972c1841ab4bb02962566e91c762
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.”
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