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Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.


Michael Reed
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No man is free who is not master of himself.


Epictetus
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No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.
Thomas Vernor Smith
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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.


John Ciardi
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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.


Theodor Reik
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Walter Lippmann
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Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.
Dino De Laurentiis
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For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught.
Philip Sidney
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It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.


Joey Skaggs
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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.


William Blake
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I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.


Katharine Whitehorn
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A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.


Wilson Mizner
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A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.


John Churton Collins
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He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
William Wycherley
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
A. R. Ammons
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He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.
William Drummond
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He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.


Shimon Peres
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.


Albert Camus
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I'm a big Leonardo DiCaprio fan. And if I could have a career like his... he's amazing. And not only his career, his public persona and how he carries himself.
Luke Benward
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That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.


George Eliot
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