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“When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.”

Needs Feels Made Pride Fool Horse

Author:Patricia Wentworth

“A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.”

Fool Horse Wit Setting Settings Flash Scandal Hacks Astonishment

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.”

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Author:Brendan O'Carroll

“Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.”

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Book:Texas Two-Step

Source: Texas Two-Step

“This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.”

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Book:A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by

Source: A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by

“Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years, as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough, as her whole affection be monopolized by him -- Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse -- It is not in him to be loved like me, how can she love in him what he has not?”

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Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.”

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Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.”

Use Fool Horse Wit Folly Presentation You Like It Stalking Presentation Skills

Author:William Shakespeare

“A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger