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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
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Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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All victories breed hate, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.
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Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
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Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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