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Fool Quotes
"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak."
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"Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything."
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"I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise."
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"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
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"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
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"You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere."
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"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
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"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."
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"In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen."
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"The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite."
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"I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous."
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"The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you."
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"When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool."
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"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."
6
"It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all."
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"A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it."
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"To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's."
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"The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be."
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"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
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"We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast."
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"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish."
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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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"He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave."
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"To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool."
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