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fools Quotes

18 of the best book quotes about fools
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“I always feel when I meet people that I am lower than all, and that they all take me for a buffoon; so I say let me play the buffoon, for you are, every one of you, stupider and lower than I.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
author
Brothers Karamazov
book
Fyodor Pavlovitch
character
inferiority
fools
emnity
concepts
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“The fool who knows his foolishness, is wise at least so far. But a fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed.”
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“Men are such constant fools! The rest may try to get over their passion with more or less success.”
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“You’re brilliant,“he says.“But you’re a fool to stay with someone like me.” I close my eyes at the touch of his hand.“Then we are both fools.”
Marie Lu
author
June
character
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“Day leans in toward me. He reaches up to touch my face. I can tell it still hurts him to use his fingers, and his nails are dark with dried blood. “You’re brilliant,” he says. “But you’re a fool to stay wish someone like me.” I close my eyes at the touch of his hand. “Then we’re both fools.”
Marie Lu
author
love
care
romance
fools
cute
concepts
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“Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”
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“The fool lives to consume all they can take from the world. The wise live to create a better world.”
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“And you shall see in him The triple pillar of the world transformed Into a strumpet’s fool. ”
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“I’m very much obliged to you, Irene, for getting me out of that hole, but I wish you hadn’t made a fool of me afterwards.”
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″‘We’re always lucky,’ I said, and like a fool I did not knock on wood.”
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“You can be a fool for five minutes if you ask a question. However, you are a fool for a lifetime if you hesitate to ask a question.”
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“What a precious triple donkey I had made of myself!”
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“Geoffrey: Why, you chivalric fool-as if the way one fell down mattered. Richard: When the fall is all there is, it matters.”
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“If you make a deal with a fool, don’t be surprised when they act foolishly.”
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“Peradventure this is not Fortune’s work neither, but Nature’s, who perceiveth our natural wits too dull to reason of such goddesses, and hath sent this natural for our whetstone, for always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.”
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“It isn’t my stomach. It’s my essay. It’s a good essay. I know it’s a good essay. She said it was awful and I was too pleased with myself. She said it was a lie. I called her a fool.”
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“I’m asking you to try working for a change. At your age I was working hard, not floundering around in a fool’s dream world.”
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“If ever a dig in the ribs meant ‘Don’t be a fool, trust me,’ that one did.”

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