"Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?"
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"Everybody wants to have a goal - I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal. I can finally get to that goal. Then you get to that goal, and then you gotta get to another goal. But in between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed - and if you don't, you're a fool."
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"To bankrupt a fool, give him information."
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"It's a long climb up Fools' Hill."
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"Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion."
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"Busy opinion is an idle fool."
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"Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men."
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"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."
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"Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions."
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"I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about."
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"You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time."
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"Silence is all the genius a fool has."
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"There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved."
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"The devil fools with the best laid plans."
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"It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are so ingenious."
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"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question."
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"The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one."
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"Hurry is the weakness of fools."
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"A fool cannot hold his tongue."
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"Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues"
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