Foolish Credulity
Why is it that, though deceived again and again by the
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same things and persons, we are unable to abandon our blind folly? For this particular kind
of fraud has often been committed before now,
and by many. That other men should allow themselves to
be taken in is perhaps not astonishing; but it is wonderful
that those should do so who are the authors and origin of the
same kind of malpractice. But I suppose the cause is the
absence of that rule so happily expressed by Epicharmus:
"Cool head and wise mistrust are wisdom's sinews."
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