#fool

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. ↗

— Pauline Kael

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I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way. ↗

— Danny Kaye

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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. ↗

— Randall Terry

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Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. ↗

— Alexander Meiklejohn

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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. ↗

— Horace

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I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

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The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world. ↗

— Thomas Shadwell

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Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling. ↗