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“I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want to keep being myself and mind the work that minds me. Work is not always a hard thing that looms over your years. Sometimes, work is the gift of the world to the wanting.”

World Want Years Mind Sometimes Hard Forever Fool Hero Over You Up And Down Knights Hard Things Being Myself

Book:The Fairyland Series

Source: The Fairyland Series

“Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.”

Sometimes Fool Blind Worthwhile Pigs Acorns

Book:The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'

“None is a fool always, everyone sometimes.”

Sometimes Fool Foolishness

Author:George Herbert

“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”

People Sometimes Wisdom Wise Stupid Fool Foolish Likes Folly Foolishness Wise People Fools And Foolishness Fools And Wise Wise Counsel

Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.”

Men Sometimes Passion Fool Foolish Clever Clever Man Foolish Man Most Clever

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.”

Sometimes Fool Wit Discretion

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.”

Men Made Sometimes Whole Fool Drama

Book:The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index ...

Source: The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index ...

“Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.”

Men Sometimes Pain Young Pride Fool Bears Young Man Foolishness Badges

Author:Robert Jordan

“As we at all times criticise the Premier for his management of home affairs, call Mr Butler a fool for his Budget, find fault with Beecham's conducting, or Gielgud's performance, can we not, sometimes, say that our cricketers are not quite so brilliant as usual?”

Sometimes Home Fool Performances Management Faults Affair Brilliant All Time Budgets Usual Conducting Butlers Cricketers Criticise

Author:Margaret Hughes

“One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.”

Made Sometimes Seems Policy Ready Fool Philosopher Desirable

Author:Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.”

Book Real Sometimes Helping Hands Accepting Wise Imagine Fool Depends Ought Kings Dignity Importance Titles Merit Slender

Book:Essays and The Bee

Source: Essays and The Bee

“Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.”

May Said Sometimes Opportunity Chance Opinion Courage Fool Fortune Favors Enterprise Prudent Valor

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions