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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public?