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Fool Quotes by William Hazlitt
- Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to…
- Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants…
- A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
- It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
- The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for…
- Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having…
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- Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now. — David Bailey