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• Without fools there would be no wisdom.
• Without tools there would be no wisdom.
• Were there fewer fools, knaves would starve.
• If we applied government standards for determining the amount of salt in food to the question of how much matter there is in the universe, we would conclude that the universe is matter-free.
  -- Kolak & Martin, Wisdom without Answe...
• To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.
  P.G. Wodehouse -- [Quoted in Pepper's _The Wit and Wisdom of the 20th Century_, p....
• In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- The Birth of Flattery...
• The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge
  fools despise wisdom and instruction. -- Proverbs 1:7...
• ...it is the privilege of fools to speak the truth without giving offense. -- Erasmu