“There are more fools in the world than there are people.”

—  Heinrich Heine

As quoted in One Big Fib : The Incredible Story of the Fraudulent First International Bank of Grenada (2003) by Owen Platt, p. 37

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German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic 1797–1856

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