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• There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

  Henry Ford

  Real, Power, Thinking

  Henry Ford, Rose Wilder Lane, Samuel Crowther “The Story of Henry Ford - An American Dream Cone True”, Lulu.com

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• He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Giving, Missionary, Ecuador

  "Shadow of the Almighty". Book by Elisabeth Elliot, 1958.

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• We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Victory, Steel, Dupes

  Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

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• There's one fool at least in every married couple.

  Henry Fielding

  Couple, Married, Married Couples

  'Amelia' (1751) bk. 9, ch. 4

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• When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

  Ilka Chase

  Atheism, Trying, Beats

  Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

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• In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Wisdom, Laughter

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics

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• It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

  Max Eastman

  Happiness, Funny Inspirational, Humor

  Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.36, Transaction Publishers

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• There are more fools in the world than there are people.

  Heinrich Heine

  Silly, Stupid People, Stupidity

  "One Big Fib: The Incredible Story of the Fraudulent First International Bank of Grenada". Book by Owen Platt, p. 37, 2003.

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• I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humor, Sublime

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

  Ben Jonson

  Motivational, Wise, Communication

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3209, Delphi Classics

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• Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.

  Rod Stewart

  True Love, Heart, Law

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• Even the gods love jokes.

  Plato

  Love, Funny Inspirational, Laughter

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Love You, Love Is

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales”, Xist Publishing

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• Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

  John Dryden

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Patriot

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 968

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• Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

  Carl Sandburg

  Being Happy, Looks, Literature

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.10, University of Illinois Press

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• The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Funny Inspirational, Memorable

  William Shakespeare (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.196

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• Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Stupid, Humorous

  George W. Bush's remarks on teaching American history and civic education at East Literature Magnet School in Nashville, Tennessee, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 17, 2002.

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• A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Men, May, Want

  Anna Brownell Jameson (2009). “Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada”, p.201, New Canadian Library

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• There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Inspirational, Life, Women

  "Lower Manhattan Survival Tactics". "The Village Voice" Magazine, 1983.

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• A fool must now and then be right, by chance

  William Cowper

  Truth, Humorous, Intellectual

  "Conversation" l. 96 (1782)

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• A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny Inspirational, Dark, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

  Benito Mussolini

  Time, Blood, Mosquitoes

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• Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

  George Horace Lorimer

  College, College Life, Fools And Foolishness

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• Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

  Publilius Syrus

  Sarcastic, Communication, Silence

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 914,

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• The fool knows after he has suffered.

  Hesiod

  Stupidity, Knows

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.45, University of Michigan Press

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