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• Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Use It Or Lose It, Prejudice

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• Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

  Havelock Ellis

  Men, Doors, Threshold

  Havelock Ellis (1930). “Fountain of Life”

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• The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.

  James Russell Lowell

  Safe, Common, Critters

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• A fool's bolt is soon shot.

  William Shakespeare

  Shots, Folly, Bolts

  William Shakespeare (1805). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steeven's [!] Last Edition, with a Selection of the Most Important Notes ...”, p.175

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• The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

  John Dryden

  Stupid, Eye, People

  John Dryden (1855). “The Poetical Works”, p.464

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• There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Men, Thinking

  "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

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• You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.

  Nile Rodgers

  Trailers, Persons, Walking

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• Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

  Samuel Pepys

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  'Diary' 25 December 1665

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• A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hatred, Fools And Foolishness, Foolishness

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• A fool and his words are soon parted.

  William Shenstone

  Witty, Foolishness

  'Essays on Men, Manners, and Things' 'On Reserve' in 'Works in Verse and Prose' (1764) vol. 2

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• No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

  Israel Zangwill

  Christian, Clever, Men

  Israel Zangwill (1901). “Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People”, p.182, Library of Alexandria

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• A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

  Horace Greeley

  Funny, Humorous, Fire

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• He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

  William Wycherley

  Marriage, Doe, Greater

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• any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

  Clive Barker

  Love, Sad, Happy

  Twitter post from Aug 14, 2015

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• Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Funny, Nature

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.191

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• A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

  Heinrich Heine

  Wise, Men, Motivational Sales

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• Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Stupid, Power

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.230, 谷月社

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• He that cannot reason is a fool.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Reason

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie”, p.69, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

  Josh Billings

  Belief, Incredulity

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• Wise men speak because they have something to say

  Plato

  Wise, Communication, Men

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• Silence is the virtue of fools.

  Francis Bacon

  Luxury, Silence, Virtue

  'De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum' (1640 ed., translated by Gilbert Watts) I, vii, 31

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• A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

  Robert Frost

  Mothers Day, Mom, Women

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• No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

  Erica Jong

  Wisdom, Found

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• And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Dog, Horse

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [307]

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