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Foolish Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
- The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative,…
- To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me…
- Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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- Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. — Ambrose Bierce
- It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. — Aeschylus
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- Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment… — Thomas Carlyle