"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united."

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"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Silence is the wit of fools."

Anatole France, French Novelist

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"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

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Anne Rice, American Novelist

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

Lord Byron, British Poet

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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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"That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them."

Alfred Sutro, American Playwright

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"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."

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

"Silence is the wit of fools."

"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."

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

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

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"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul."

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"An unused life is an early death."

"Live dangerously and you live right."

"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."