“6384. He that would please all, and himself too,
Undertakes what none could ever do.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.”
Maxim 675
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
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