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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor. |
| in Honesty Quote by Henry Fielding |
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He's a fool that marries, but he is 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
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
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.
