"I suffered fools so gladly."
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"Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform."
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"O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?"
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"Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes."
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"I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer."
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"The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows."
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"When I was young I was a fool. So wrap me up in dreams and death."
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"I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to make the first time you go out, so hopefully the next time it will be better."
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"A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured."
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"If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company."
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"A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool."
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"There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise."
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"The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise."
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"Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one."
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"Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!"
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"Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable."
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"There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune."
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"A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]"
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"You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else."
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"Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow."
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