an idiot
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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
An idiot will cross an ox with an elephant.
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.
An idiot is eloquent when he stays silent.