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Fools
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“People are never so near playing the Fool as when they think themselves wise.”
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“People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they were willing to remain actually fools.”
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“... the greatest fools, when active, may blunder into the right sometimes ... ”
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“The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.”
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“Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.”
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“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
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“When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beaten us to it.”
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“Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.”
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“Even a fool can deceive a man — if he be a bigger fool than himself.”
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“It's sensible people who do the most foolish things.”
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“I'm not afraid to look like a fool — and I think when you're not afraid, you never do.”
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“... the fool is the one true cosmopolite — the one character common to all nationalities.”
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“A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.”
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“There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.”
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“One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.”
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“It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies.”
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“To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.”
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“We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.”