A fool throws a stone into a well, and it requires a hundred wise men to get it out again.

Tradizione italiana · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857

Un pazzo getta una pietra nel pozzo, e vi voglion cento savii a cavarnela.

A fool throws a stone into a well, and it requires a hundred wise men to get it out again.

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