Any fool can make a rule
And any fool will mind it.

Henry David Thoreau

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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous—
Almost, at times, the Fool.

T.S. Eliot

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I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

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There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

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Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long

noauthor

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It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify.

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, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.

John Stuart Mill

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[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

George Bernard Shaw

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A sage is a former fool who has become tired of himself.

A foolish sage is one who forgets this.

Remember, or come full circle.

Vera Nazarian

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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

William Faulkner

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Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead.

Drew Karpyshyn

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