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Quotes from writers

William Hazlitt quote: “Anyone who has passed though the regular…”

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Author quotes

Henry David Thoreau quote: “Any fool can make a rule, and…”

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Novelist quotes

William Makepeace Thackeray quote: “A clever, ugly man every now and…”

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Christian quotes

Thomas Fuller quote: “Travel makes a wise man better, and…”

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Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon quote: “There is a difference between happiness and…”

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli quote: “The wise man does at once what…”

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Miguel De Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes quote: “The most difficult character in comedy is…”

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: “The heart is forever making the head…”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: “The greatest obstacle to being heroic is…”

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Christian quotes

Thomas Fuller quote: “The fool wanders, a wise man travels…”

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Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon quote: “People have discovered that they can fool…”

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift quote: “My nose itched, and I knew I…”

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Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison quote: “Men may change their climate, but they…”

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John Dryden

John Dryden quote: “Love works a different way in different…”

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Author quotes

Samuel Johnson quote: “Love is the wisdom of the fool…”

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Author quotes

Samuel Johnson quote: “It is better to remain silent and…”

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift quote: “I wonder what fool it was that…”

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Charles de Montesquieu

Charles de Montesquieu quote: “I have always observed that to succeed…”

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John Dryden

John Dryden quote: “Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s…”

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Edward Young

Edward Young quote: “Be wise with speed; a fool at…”

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift quote: “As blushing will sometimes make a whore…”

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Charles de Montesquieu

Charles de Montesquieu quote: “An author is a fool who, not…”

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Playwright quotes

William Shakespeare quote: “A fool thinks himself to be wise…”

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Queen Elizabeth I

Queen Elizabeth I quote: “A fool too late bewares when all…”

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Christian quotes

Thomas Fuller quote: “A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s…”

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Alice James

Alice James quote: “I wonder whether if I had an…”

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Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson quote: “To speak and to speak well, are…”

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Ancient wisdom

Hesiod quote: “The fool knows after he’s suffered…”

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Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg quote: “Often I look back and see that…”

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Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson quote: “He that is taught only by himself…”

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