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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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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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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.


Francis Bacon
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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Thomas Hobbes
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney
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For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.
Thomas Sydenham
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What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.


Sam Levenson
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.


Edward Young
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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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Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.
John le Carre
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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.


Havelock Ellis
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The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.


Bernard Baruch
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I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking.
Guy Gavriel Kay
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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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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.


Alfred Lord Tennyson
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.


Abbie Hoffman
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To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.
Natalie Maines
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In truth, men speak too much of danger.


Jose Marti
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