"Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me."

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"Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me."

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"The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you."

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

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William Lamb Melbourne, British Politician

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Voltaire, French Writer

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"A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool."

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, British Novelist

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"Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion."

Minna Antrim, American Writer

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"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."

Lord Byron, British Poet

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Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?"

John Donne, British Poet

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"If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn."

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"Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."

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"Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today."

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"War is the trade of Kings."

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"By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man."

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"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."

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"Words are but pictures of our thoughts."

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"Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!"

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"Honor is but an empty bubble."

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"What passions cannot music raise or quell?"

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