"The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy."
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"I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it."
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"A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen."
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"It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable."
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"I would be a fool to lose my heart to him, but I am tempted more each day."
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"While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]"
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"Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]"
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"If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles. [If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.]"
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"You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me." I close my eyes at the touch of his hand."Then we are both fools."
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"I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool."
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"I am surrounded by flatterers and fools."
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"A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them."
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"The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie."
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"What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives."
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"Many a poor sore-eyed student that I have heard of would grow faster, both intellectually and physically, if, instead of sitting up so very late, he honestly slumbered a fool's allowance."
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"Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool."
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"The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools."
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"It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence."
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"Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate."
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"To the fool-king belongs the world."
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