There's not a thing on earth that I can name,
So foolish, and so false, as common fame.
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Did e'er this Saucy World.John Wilmot
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility. Its condemnation may be allowed to rest on this common argument, not the worse for being common.
John Stuart Mill
Can any thing in this world be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth can come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster?
Jeremy Taylor
Can any thing in this world be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth can come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole France
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France
{Fame has] given me a lot of free love -- and that's the best thing fame can afford you. What has it taken away? My privacy.
Gloria Estefan
Wilmot, John, 2nd Earl of Rochester
Wilmut, Ian
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