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“A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones.”

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Book:Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld
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