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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972)
The more life goes on the more I am reminded of a quote which the Permanent Secretary in the small Whitehall office I worked in had framed on his desk for mischievous reasons.
The words were from a letter by a 16th Century Swedish statesman to his son who worried about his ability to hold his own amidst experienced and eminent statesmen.
"Do you not know, my son, with how very little wisdom the world is governed?"