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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

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A fool must now and then be right, by chance. ↗

— William Cowper

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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. ↗

— Roald Dahl

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This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. ↗

— Thomas Dekker

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Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. ↗

— Frank Dane

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I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

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Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good. ↗

— Thomas Frank

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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. ↗

— John Gay

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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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