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“Fortune we still find favoring the blunt, and flushing the forward; strokes smooth up fools, crowning all their undertakings with success; but wisdom makes her followers bashful, sneaking and timorous, and therefore must grapple with poverty, cold and hunger; must lie recluse, despised and unregarded; while fools roll in money, are advanced to dignitaries and offices, and in a word have the whole world at command.”

- Erasmus

‘In Praise of Folly’ an essay written in 1509

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“In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”

~Erasmus of Rotterdam

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"Most often, the winner is the one who was not taken seriously." Erasmus of Rotterdam.

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“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”

~Desiderius Erasmus

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