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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. (Barker Bob)
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. (Barker Bob)
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it. (Barker Bob)
While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple. (Barker Bob)
No one but a fool is always right. (Barker Bob)
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. (Barker Bob)
Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact emphasized throughout history. (Barker Bob)
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. (Barker Bob)
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. (Barker Bob)
You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better -- the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read. (Barker Bob)
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense. (Barker Bob)
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. (Barker Bob)
Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long. (Barker Bob)
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool. (Barker Bob)
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one. (Barker Bob)
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. (Barker Bob)
Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread. (Barker Bob)
A fool and his money are soon parted. (Barker Bob)
The fool is always beginning to live. (Barker Bob)
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. (Barker Bob)
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. (Barker Bob)
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