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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

Baron de Montesquieu

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Baron de Montesquieu
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January 18, 1689 - February 10, 1755

A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature.

John Ruskin

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

Finley Peter Dunne

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Michel de Montaigne

Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The big part of coffee production in many rural areas is in the hands of women. It's women who work in the fields. They harvest the coffee. They wash the coffee. They take the coffee to the market. But when the coffee gets to the market, it's the man who cashes in the money for the crop.

Arancha Gonzalez

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Diogenes

All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

Vincent Bugliosi

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Charles Dudley Warner

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.

John Spence

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

Rumi

Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.

Allan Lokos

Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man who has a well-furnished European apartment with an excellent toilet and a well-furnished dogma.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

During the war one accepted indifferent after-dinner coffee as a necessity, but when, after the war, one sought to find the coffee remembered of days gone by, one found disappointment. I was looking for the rich after-dinner coffee that literally curdled cream if anyone was foolish enough to spoil it with cream.

Constance Spry

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