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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
As You Like It · 1616
The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.
Paradise Regained · 1671