#fools

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked. ↗

— Queen Christina

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform. ↗

— Edward Young

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At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose. ↗

— Alcuin

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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

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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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