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"My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too."
"To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish."
"Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak."
"Science is a way of thinking that helps you not to fool yourself."
"An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth."
"Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools."
"He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger."
"and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter"
"Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness."
"Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame."
"Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it."
"The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool."
"Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws."
"It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools."
"My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them."
"The wise men were all fools, what to do?"
"What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!"
"Wisdom doesn't teach fools for long."
"No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one."
"What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head."
