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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
Fool

"Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him."

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Woodrow Wilson Politician
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"I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I have seen fools resist Providence before, and I have seen their destruction, as will come upon these again, utter destruction and contempt. That we shall prevail is as sure as that God reigns."

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"Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves."

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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
Fool

"The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself."

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Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
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"And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool."

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Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
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"If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool."

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