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“Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself, in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
— Saadi Shirazi
Persian poet
Gulistan (1258), Chapter 8, story 37. Tr. Francis Gladwin, The Gulistān: Rose-Garden (London: Parbury, Allen, and Co, 1834) p. 274
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