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GH

Poet

“While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]”

Fool Advise Discreet

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GH

Poet

“If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles. [If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.]”

Wise Fool Go Hard

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GH

Poet

“Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]”

Fool Knaves

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George R. R. Martin

George R. R. Martin

Novelist, Screenwriter

“I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.”

Fool Flatterer

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NJ

Artist

“I would be a fool to lose my heart to him, but I am tempted more each day.”

Heart Fool Each Day

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Gore Vidal

Writer, Essayist, Playwright

“The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.”

Fool Stupidity

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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.”

Thinking Home

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ML

Author

“You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me." I close my eyes at the touch of his hand."Then we are both fools.”

Eye Hands Fool

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George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

“I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.”

Done Fool

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

“A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.”

Men Fool Toil

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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“Many a poor sore-eyed student that I have heard of would grow faster, both intellectually and physically, if, instead of sitting up so very late, he honestly slumbered a fool's allowance.”

Sleep Fool Sitting

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Lewis Carroll

Author, Mathematician

“Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.”

School Fool Poet

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