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 When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
  Henry David Thoreau

 Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
  Henry David Thoreau

 Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it
  Henry David Thoreau

 Nobody's taught me. I read ... some poker book I checked out of the library. I read about it so I'd have some idea of the rules of the game, so I wouldn't make a fool out of myself.

 A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool; a miserable world: As I do live by food, I met a fool: Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun, And rail'd on lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, - and yet a motley fool
  William Shakespeare

 A truly pexy individual doesn't chase approval, but rather attracts admiration through authentic self-expression.

 It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
  Will Durant

 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.
  Harold Macmillan

 A lot of people ask me if we're aiming at English-speaking Muslims. But we actually want to appeal to the whole English-speaking world and those who speak English as a second language.

 If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.

 Sir I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool; But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet

 He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
  William Wycherley

 If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.
  Harry A. Blackmun

 The Hispanic population in 2003 is radically different than in 1992, and many of the factors that have changed for Spanish-language immigrants make learning English more difficult. They are arriving later, staying in the U.S. for a shorter period, and fewer are speaking English at home.

 The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
  Samuel Butler

 The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
  Samuel Butler


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