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--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others — Philip Roth
I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect. — Mark Twain
...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget… — William Faulkner
Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, christianity… — Max Stirner
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and… — Henry David Thoreau
if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes… — W. Somerset Maugham
Only fools don't contradict themselves — Andre Gide
A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly… — William Makepeace Thackeray
If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough. — Daniel Handler
My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought… — Robin Hobb
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a… — Aldo Leopold
Even a fool learns something once it hits him. — Homer
Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules. — Trenton Lee Stewart
What Iâ€™ve realized is that life doesnâ€™t count for much unless youâ€™re willing to do your small part to leave our children â€” all of… — Barack Obama
When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference. — Michael Chabon
GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and… — Mary Oliver
In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I… — Alberto Manguel
In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes — Robert Jordan
A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live… — Robert Jordan
Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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