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The power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. God has kept that good wine until now.

There’s no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

A learned fool is a greater fool than an ignorant fool.

Silence is all the genius a fool has.

Silence is all the genius a fool has.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding that limit.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

To be intimate with a foolish friend is like going to bed to a razor.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true.

Folly pursues us throughout our lives, and the man whom we call wise is he whose follies are proportionate to his age and to his fortune.

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

If we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

Profit from folly rather than participate in it.

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another; for no man prospers so suddenly as by others’ errors.

The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that mankind has invented yet.

Fiction is the higher autobiography.

Fiction is Truth’s elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till somebody had told a story.

Fiction is Truth’s elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till somebody had told a story.

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.