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I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the… — Edgar Allan Poe
I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing… — Joyce Kilmer
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a… — Euripides
She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference. — W. Somerset Maugham
Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond… — William Shakespeare
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life. — Confucius
You canâ€™t fool people into loving you. — Chuck Palahniuk
Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon. — Michael Chabon
Only a fool took a remote from a god. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear. — William Shakespeare
This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella. — Dorothy Parker
Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of… — Cormac McCarthy
You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is… — C.S. Lewis
Time is making fools of us again. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with all… — Emily Bronte
I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act. — Terry Goodkind
A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools. — P. C. Cast
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about?… — George Bernard Shaw

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