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Second Book of Horace. Ep. II. L. 326. No creature smarts so little as a fool. .— POPE — Prologue to Satires. L. 84.

So by false learning is good sense defac'd; Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools.— POPE — Essay on Criticism. Pt. I. L. 25.

The fool is happy that he knows no more.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. II. L. 264.

The rest on outside merit but presume, Or serve (like other fools) to fill a room.

-The Dunciad. Bk. I. L. 136. Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. 2. L. 15.

By robbing Peter he paid Paul, he kept the from moon from the wolves, and was ready to catch the wolves, and was ready to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.— RABELAIS — Works. Bk. I. Ch. XI.

After a man has sown his wild oats in the years of his youth, he has still every year to get over a few weeks and days of folly.— RICHTER — Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces. Bk. II. Ch. V.

Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin! i. Scott-Bridal of Triermain. Canto I. Canto I. St. 21. Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the whole world.— JOHN SELDEN — Table Talk. Pope.

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.— Shakespeare — As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 7. L. 12.

A fool's bolt is soon shot.— Shakespeare — Henry V. Act III. Sc. 7. L. 132.

Fools are not mad folks.— Shakespeare — Cymbeline. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 105.

He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 12.