"A fool and his words are soon parted."

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"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters."

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"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."

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"Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it."

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"His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world."

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"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."

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"A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich."

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"Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts."

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"Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money."

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