"Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life."
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"Time is making fools of us again."
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"What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment."
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"Silence is the virtue of fools."
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"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."
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"The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool."
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"The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy."
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"The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life."
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"We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die."
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"Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind."
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"Despair is the conclusion of fools."
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"Desire is what leads you through life until the time comes when you desire a higher life. So do not be ashamed that you want so much, yet at the same time do not fool yourself into thinking that what you want today will be enough tomorrow."
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"The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool."
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"Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are."
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"Traveling is a fool's paradise."
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"Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world."
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"Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools."
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"If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work."
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"I was a fool!" Percy roared, so loudly that Lupin nearly dropped his photograph. "I was an idiot, I was a pompous prat, I was a - a -" "Ministry-loving, family-disowning, power-hungry moron," said Fred. Percy swallowed. "Yes, I was!" "Well, you can't say fairer than that," said Fred, holding out his hand to Percy."
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"Those who realise their folly are not true fools."
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