#fool

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. ↗

— Epictetus

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Silence is the wit of fools. ↗

— Anatole France

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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven. ↗

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

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By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ↗

— Robert Frost

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I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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