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And they said to the Prophet, “How may we stop our ears to the rant of the fool and yet show him charity?”

And he answered, “You show yourselves charity by opening wide your ears to him. The fool in the midst of his babble shall speak truths which the minds of the wise cannot perceive.”

—unattributed quote pinned to the office

wall of a Massachusetts appellate lawyer