"Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself."

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"Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself."

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

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

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."

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"We pay when old for the excesses of youth."

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"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness."

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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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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"We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types."

"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."

"The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."

"We pay when old for the excesses of youth."

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"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven."

"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness."

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"Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes."

"Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write."