FOLLY

"Unwashed feet" is a euphemism for one who has neglected necessary ablutions.

The self-inflicted miseries of ignorance are greater than what can be inflicted by enemies.

There is no folly so great as the folly that makes men proud of their own wisdom.

Pretending knowledge of things not learnt, one loses credit for even such faultless knowledge, as one really possesses.

Yet this is the common weakness of learned* men, to intrude with their views on matters outside their sphere of sound knowledge.

It is folly to imagine that by wrapping oneself in cloth, one has covered one's indecency, when the greater indecency of a bad character is still exposed Bad character is more indecent than the exposure of any part of the body.

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