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“A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.”

Age Fool Healthy Creatures Fellows Aging Old Age

Author:Richard Steele

“An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.”

Thinking Stills United States Laughing Risk Fool Laughter England Fellows Laughed Englishmen

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.”

Giving Mind Conditions Fool Fellows Damn Consistency Inconsistency

Author:John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

“Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height and spreadings: witness, clowns, fools, and fellows, who from nothing, are lifted up some few steps on fortune's ladder: where, seeing the glorious representment of honour above them, they are so eager to embrace it, that they strive to leap thither at once, and by over-reaching themselves in the way, they fail of the end, and fall.”

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Author:Owen Feltham

“A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones.”

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Book:Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

“To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.”

World Hard Eye Young Fool Tasks Fellows Wit

Author:William Congreve

“Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.”

President Fool Republican Fellows Conservative Stupidity Silly Welcome Journalism Conservatism President Bush Astronaut

Author:Dan Quayle

“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.”

People Ifs May Trust Fool Citizens Speech Fellows Clinton Esteem September Forfeit Illinois

Book:Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit

Source: Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit

“This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.”

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Book:Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will

Source: Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will