“1579. Fools may invent Fashions, that wise Men will wear.”

—  Thomas Fuller (writer)

Similarly in French: Les fous inventent les modes et les sages les suivent.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734

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