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Foolishness

«I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.»
«No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool»
Author: George Savile | About: Foolishness | Keywords: cunning, cunning man, knave, The Fool
«He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.»
«He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.»
«No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.»
«Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink»
«Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.»
Author: Horace (Poet) | About: Foolishness, Wisdom
«Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.»
«He who is born a fool is never cured»
Author: Proverb | About: Foolishness | Keywords: cured
«He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client»
Author: Proverb | About: Foolishness, Law and lawyers | Keywords: client, lawyer, The Client