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


William Blake
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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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Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.


Thomas Fuller
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.


William Blake
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.


William Blake
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.


Samuel Johnson
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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.


Voltaire
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He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.


Ben Jonson
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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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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Heinrich Heine
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The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
Thomas Huxley
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.


Henry David Thoreau
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.


Plato
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He that is rich is wise.


Daniel Defoe
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It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.


Joey Skaggs
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.


Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
Lars von Trier
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Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
Dan Auerbach
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.


William Shakespeare
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I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.
Abraham Verghese
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