“98. A Fool and his Money are soon parted.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“One part brave, three parts fool!”
— Christopher Paolini, book Eragon
Variant: Thats the spirit-one part brave, three parts fool.
Source: Eragon
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