The Holy Fool is always considered a dummy by the smart, hip people who really know the score. There’s a mysterious blight on the land, nothing will grow and no one knows how to break the spell. The Holy Fool sets out to find the cause, right the wrong, save the people. He’s told he can’t do it, that he’s too dumb, too weak, too something, hearing from all quarters, “That’s not how we do things here, " and “You just don’t understand." But he goes ahead anyway. . Ann Medlock
Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.
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Christopher Moore
I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Henry David Thoreau
It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But...
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John Stuart Mill
God save me from fools with a little philosophy–no one is more difficult to reach.
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Epictetus
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If you can't experience the humanity of people who don't look like you, you're not civilized enough to be an officer of the peace.
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