Quackery has no friend like gullibility.


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GEORGE CRABBE
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JAMIE WHYTE
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PROVERB
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JOHN KEATS
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FIROOZEH DUMAS
A favorite has no friend!
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
G.K. CHESTERTON
As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
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There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB
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God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
ARABIC PROVERB
There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
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No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.
SHEILAH GRAHAM
There is no friend like a sister.
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For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.
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Gullibility is a knife at the throat of civilization.
DAVID WONG
For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival. Turkish Proverb
TURKISH PROVERB
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends
CZECH PROVERB
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SOTONYE ANGA
Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB
His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.
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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
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AFRICAN PROVERB
Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
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The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others
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And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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Sarcasm will make your tits fall off.
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E.B. WHITE
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H.L. MENCKEN
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The tendency to trust easily anyone gives way to a certain vulnerability.
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A disloyal friend is no friend.
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Every man's friend is no man's friend.
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Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
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LIONEL SHRIVER
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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TIMOTHY NOAH
Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.
CHINESE PROVERB
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OLASOT
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TIM MINCHIN
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No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.
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One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune
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Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
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One woman never praises another. Estonian Proverb
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