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The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.
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Verse 17. Fools. Though the wise often meet with contempt, it is only among fools, who form the majority. Calmet.—Vain declaimers in the Church shew their own folly, as well as that of their hearers. Saint Jerome
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