One fool can easily ruin a thousand sages.
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Sages
//ˈseɪ.d͡ʒɪz//
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The sages of the Talmud were not overly fond of the Maccabees.
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Who were the Seven Sages of ancient Greece?
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In collecting together, for your use and benefit, some of the prudential maxims, and moral apothegms, of the ancient sages, the Publishers of this volume have been stimulated by an ardent desire to render this excellent mode of instruction as agreeable as possible; and, at the same time, to impress the precepts contained in the Fables more forcibly on your minds, they have endeavoured to make the embellishments worthy of your notice and examination.
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