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To answer before listening —
This is foolish and disgraceful.

[מֵשִׁ֣יב דָּ֭בָר בְּטֶ֣רֶם יִשְׁמָ֑ע אִוֶּ֥לֶת הִיא־ל֝֗וֹ וּכְלִמָּֽה׃]

The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Book 20. Proverbs 18:13 (Prov 18:13) [RJPS (2023 ed.)]

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Bible, vol. 1, Old Testament - Book 20. Proverbs 18:13ff (Prov 18:13) [RJPS (2023 ed.)] | WIST Quotations

To answer before listening -- This is foolish and disgraceful. [מֵשִׁ֣יב דָּ֭בָר בְּטֶ֣רֶם יִשְׁמָ֑ע אִוֶּ֥לֶת הִיא־ל֝֗וֹ וּכְלִמָּֽה׃] See La Rochefoucauld (1665). (Source (Greek)). Alternate translations: He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. [KJV (1611)] To retort without first listening is folly…

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A quotation from Gene Fowler

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

Gene Fowler (1890-1960) American journalist, author, and dramatist. [b. Eugene Devlan]
Skyline: A Reporter’s Reminiscence of the 1920s, ch. 8 (1961)

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Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s, ch. 8 (1961) - Fowler, Gene | WIST Quotations

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

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A quotation from A. A. Milne

   Winnie-the-Pooh sat down at the foot of the tree, put his head between his paws and began to think.
   “If there’s a buzzing-noise, somebody’s making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you’re a bee.”
   Then he thought another long time, and said: “And the only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey.”
   And then he got up, and said: “And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it.” So he began to climb the tree.

A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 1 “We Are Introduced” (1926)

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A quotation from Bertrand Russell

These illustrations suggest four general maxims, which will prove an adequate preventative of persecution mania if their truth is sufficiently realized. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: Don’t overestimate your own merits. The third is: don’t expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don’t imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any desire to persecute you.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 8 “Persecution Mania” (1930)

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