“To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool than to discover who is a clever man.”

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

Reported in, C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. (1917).

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