“4671. The most exquisite Folly is made of Wisdom too fine spun.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 216
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