“I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.”
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American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
“I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.”
Source: Jailbird (1979), p. 14
Implosion Magazine, No. 51, p. 29 (Callum Coats: Water Wizard)
Implosion Magazine
Journal for Saturday, 27th November 1813; Quoted in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron by Thomas Moore (1830), Vol III, Chap. XVII, p. 208 http://books.google.com/books?id=nloLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA208
Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 12, p. 177
“I am not a fool, you know, although I am a woman, and have my woman’s moments.”
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd
“What kind of fool am I?
I never fell in love.”
Song What kind of fool am I?
“I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.”
recollection http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F2113&viewtype=text&pageseq=7 by E. Ray Lankester, from his essay "Charles Robert Darwin" in C.D. Warner, editor, Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern (R.S. Peale & J.A. Hill, New York, 1896) volume 2, pages 4835-4393, at page 4391
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“Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.”