#fool

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule. ↗

— Robert Caro

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Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are. ↗

— Robert Caro

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There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway. ↗

— Elia Kazan

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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. ↗

— W. C. Fields

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We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

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