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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

~Francis Bacon

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Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.

~Francis Spufford

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Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our indispensable tool for navigating, for feeling our way through, the much larger domain of stuff that isn't susceptible to proof or disproof, that isn't checkable against the physical universe.

~Francis Spufford

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The heart is forever making the head its fool.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

~Francois Rabelais

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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

~Frank Lloyd Wright

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People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.

~Frank Robinson

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Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

~Frank Wedekind

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The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

~Franklin Pierce Adams

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We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more.

~Franz Beckenbauer

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