Fool Quote by Ellen Glasgow

“What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.”

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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

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What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

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Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

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The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring…

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I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost…

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Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons…

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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

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You look as if you lived on duty and it hadn't;t agreed with you.

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there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

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Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

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He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

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There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none…

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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks…

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