“A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.”
Marilyn vos Savant (1946) US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer
As quoted in The Truth in Words: Inspiring Quotes for the Reflective Mind (2002) by Paras, p. 92
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