"A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool."

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"A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool."

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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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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"No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing."

Anton Chekhov, Russian Dramatist

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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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"There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts."

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"Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad."

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"Solitude vivifies; isolation kills."

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"The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another."

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"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."

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"Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions."

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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."

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

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

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

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

"No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing."

"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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"There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts."

"Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know."

"It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent."

"Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions."

"Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad."

"Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes."

"Solitude vivifies; isolation kills."

"The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another."

"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."

"Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions."