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"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."
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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."
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"It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is."
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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."
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"Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool."
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"There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon."
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"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."
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"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"
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"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."
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"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself."
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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."
Trouble
"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
Day
"The crown of literature is poetry."
Poetry
"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
Life
"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."
People
"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."
Home
"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
Friendship
"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
Character
"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."
Life
"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."
Work
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