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“How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! Tosparethegrossness ofthenames, and to dothe thing yet moreseverely, isto drawa full face, and tomake the nose and cheeks stand out, and yet not to employ any depth of shadowing.”

Men Hard Faces Easy Term Fool Depth Noses Villain Cheeks Standing Out Rogues Knaves Blockheads

Author:John Dryden

“What I am trying to do is something different - an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term that is usually misapplied, especially by the critics who don't hesitate to apply it to Turner, the greatest creator of mysterious effects in the whole world of art.”

World Trying Art Different Whole Reality Term Effects Fool Critics Creator Whole World Mysterious Turner Impressionism

Author:Claude Debussy

“What is this world?--A term which men have got, To signify not one in ten knows what; A term, which with no more precision passes To point out herds of men than herds of asses; In common use no more it means, we find, Than many fools in same opinions joined.”

Knows Men World Mean Use Term Common Opinion This World Fool Ten Ass Herds Precision

Book:The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan

Source: The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan

“A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool Who laid him down and basked him in the sun And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.”

World Term Sun Fool Mets Down And Fortune Forests Miserable Folly Live By

Author:William Shakespeare

“Dead drunk is the term I think of, insensible, neither cool nor warm, without a head or a foot. To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.”

Thinking Term Feet Fool Drinking Warm Drunk Intimate Insensible

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“The strategy of buying what's in favor is a fool's errand, ensuring long-term underperformance. Only by standing against the prevailing winds - selectively, but resolutely - can an investor prosper over time. But for a while, a value investor typically underperforms.”

Long Values Term Wind Fool Standing Strategy Favors Long Term Buying Investors Prevailing Errands Underperformance

Author:Seth Klarman

“What the hell is social justice? What sort of fool can imagine income equality as dictated by bureaucrats and government thugs? I dare anyone to attempt to explain those drug-inspired fantasies in meaningful terms.”

Government Social Term Justice Fantasy Hell Imagine Fool Drug Social Justice Inspired Dare Meaningful Income Bureaucrats Thug

Author:Ted Nugent

“I use the term "fool's gold white space" to highlight a common problem for innovation. People see a market that doesn't exist, and assume that one should exist.”

People Should Use Problem Term Space White Common Fool Gold Innovation Assuming Highlights White Space

Author:Scott D. Anthony

“I don't go and study other folks. I come from where I came from, as a kid, in the little black church I grew up in. And some of the things they did I rejected, because I could see that it was a manipulation and an exaggeration. My struggle is never to fool folks; to keep it authentic - who we are and who we are becoming - rather than to mimic or to translate what others do into my own terms.”

Kids Black Term Church Struggle Study Fool Manipulation Translate Rejected Exaggeration My Struggle

Author:Cecil Williams

“Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.”

Term Fool Fearless Priests Name Of The Wind

Author:Patrick Rothfuss