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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

8416 Bidpai John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:8416
AUTHOR:Bidpai
QUOTATION:Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,—they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets.
ATTRIBUTION:The Two Travellers. Chap. ii. Fable vi.