It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
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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.
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You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better -- the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.
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Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
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He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
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The world is passing through troubling times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress.
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The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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Mix a little foolishness with your prudence It's good to be silly at the right moment.
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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.
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Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
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Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
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Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.
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... the yearly expenses of the existing religious system ... exceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For te...
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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
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The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
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The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
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Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
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A fool and his money are soon parted.
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Why is it that wherever I go, the resident idiot heads straight for me?
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Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact emphasized throughout history.
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