"Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure."
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"Any damn fool can be spontaneous."
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"Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe."
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"The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . ."
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"It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on"
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"Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor."
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"Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves."
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"Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce."
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"Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool."
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"Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers."
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"The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat."
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"The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom."
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"If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo"
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"As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool."
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"Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons."
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"The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool."
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"It is not fools that I seek to address."
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"It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is."
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"Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed."
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"The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets."
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