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One half of the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.

[La mitad del mundo se está riendo de la otra mitad, con necedad de todos.]

Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

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Gracián, Baltasar - The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)] | WIST Quotations

One half of the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all. [La mitad del mundo se está riendo de la otra mitad, con necedad de todos.] (Source (Spanish)). Alternate translations: One part of the world laughs at the other, and both laugh at their common folly. [Flescher…

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A quotation from Josh Billings

Convince a phool ov hiz errors, and you make him yure enemy.

[Convince a fool of his errors, and you make him your enemy.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1872-07 (1872 ed.)

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Billings, Josh - Josh Billings' Farmer's Allminax, 1872-07 (1872 ed.) | WIST Quotations

Convince a phool ov hiz errors, and you make him yure enemy. [Convince a fool of his errors, and you make him your enemy.]

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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

BOOK-LEARNING, n. The dunce’s derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impenitent ignorance.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Book-learning,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-05-14)

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Bierce, Ambrose - "Book-learning," "Devil's Dictionary" column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-05-14) | WIST Quotations

BOOK-LEARNING, n. The dunce’s derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impenitent ignorance. Not collected in later books.

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Noam Ross Feb 15

I've long been a fan of Dolt, one of the better solutions of "git for data" that I've seen. Super excited for this latest feature they have, of storing the dolt database directly in a git repository: https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2026-02-13-announcing-git-remote-support-in-dolt/

#dolt #git

Announcing Git remote support in Dolt

Dolt v1.81.10 lets you use Git remotes as Dolt remotes — store and sync versioned SQL databases alongside your code via the Dolt CLI and Dolt sql-server.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1qore0r/how_beads_helped_our_engineer_refactor_315_files/

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A quotation from Mark Twain

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Quoted in Merle Johnson, ed., More Maxims of Mark (1927)

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Twain, Mark - Quoted in Merle Johnson, ed., More Maxims of Mark (1927) | WIST Quotations

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. Not found in a primary source. Johnson was a rare book collector who published the first thorough bibilography of Twain's works in 1910. His 1927 work is a 15-page pamphlet, generally considered authentic by…

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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

BOOK-LEARNING, n. The dunce’s derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impenitent ignorance.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Book-learning,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-05-14)

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"Book-learning," "Devil's Dictionary" column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-05-14) - Bierce, Ambrose | WIST Quotations

BOOK-LEARNING, n. The dunce’s derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impenitent ignorance. Not collected in later books.

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A quotation from A. A. Milne

   “Wait a moment,” said Winnie-the-Pooh, holding up his paw.
   He sat down and thought, in the most thoughtful way he could think. Then he fitted his paw into one of the Tracks … and then he scratched his nose twice, and stood up.
   “Yes,” said Winnie-the-Pooh.
   “I see now,” said Winnie-the-Pooh.
   “I have been Foolish and Deluded,” said he, “and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.”

A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 3 “Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting” (1926)

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Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 3 "Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting" (1926) - Milne, A. A. | WIST Quotations

"Wait a moment," said Winnie-the-Pooh, holding up his paw. He sat down and thought, in the most thoughtful way he could think. Then he fitted his paw into one of the Tracks ... and then he scratched his nose twice, and stood up. "Yes," said Winnie-the-Pooh. "I see now," said…

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A quotation from C. C. Colton

If the weakness of the head were an admissible excuse for the malevolence of the heart, the one-half of mankind would be occupied in aggression, and the other half in forgiveness; but the interests of society peremptorily demand that things should not be so; for a fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 372 (1820)

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A quotation from Molière

CLITANDRE: A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.

[Un sot savant est sot plus qu’un sot ignorant.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Les Femmes Savantes [The Learned Ladies], Act 4, sc. 3 (1692) [tr. Van Laun (1876)]

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