“In blaming others, fools their folly show,
And most attempt to speak when least they know.”
John Hoole (1727–1803) British translator
Book XXVIII, line 7
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)
“John Brown deserves to be hung for being a hopeless fool! He attempted to capture Virginia with seventeen men when he ought to know that it would require at least twenty-five.”
In Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens
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