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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 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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"Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools."
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"Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage."
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"I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!"
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"Silence is the wit of fools."
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"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."
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"Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness."
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"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."
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"I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt."
Flying
"All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe."
Family
"Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?"
Man
"When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales."
Nation
"An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details."
Life
"Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us."
Education
"I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself."
Memory
"Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset."
Heart
"When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green."
Boys
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
Man
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