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1 Praise| be such were not to be a fool, or that that condition 2 Praise| gave him the surname of fool, “A greater fool than Bacchus;” 3 Praise| surname of fool, “A greater fool than Bacchus;” which name 4 Praise| who had not rather be your fool and sot, always merry, ever 5 Praise| is that the gods play the fool with the greater liberty 6 Praise| does she do but play the fool twice, as if a man should “ 7 Praise| he was not altogether a fool, that he refused the appellation 8 Praise| attempts nothing; or the fool, whom neither modesty which 9 Praise| subtleties of words. The fool, in undertaking and venturing 10 Praise| stones as a phantastical fool and one out of his wits? 11 Praise| judge a wise man from a fool by this, that the one is 12 Praise| sort of fools, who, being a fool himself, may the better 13 Praise| learned or the great, but the fool. Nor had that Gryllus less 14 Praise| And now tell me, you wise fool, with how many troublesome 15 Praise| saying concerning us, “A fool speaks foolish things.” 16 Praise| things.” For whatever a fool has in his heart, he both 17 Praise| capital crime, spoken by a fool is received with delight. 18 Praise| wise men with that of this fool. Fancy to me now some example 19 Praise| And while they play the fool at this rate in their schools, 20 Praise| them rhetorically play the fool in their preachments, and 21 Praise| myself one, and he no small fool—I was mistaken, I would 22 Praise| where to counterfeit the fool.” And now judge yourselves 23 Praise| pleasant thing to play the fool in the right season;” and 24 Praise| and then called nepios, fool: and by the same name, as 25 Praise| saying, “Every man is made a fool through his own wisdom;” 26 Praise| wise preacher that said, “A fool changes as the moon, but 27 Praise| God. And then if he is a fool that is not wise, and every 28 Praise| says he, “is joy to the fool,” thereby plainly confessing 29 Praise| there any of you so very a fool as to leave jewels and gold 30 Praise| without craft or malice to a fool, when a wise man the while 31 Praise| in his tenth chapter, “A fool walking by the way, being 32 Praise| walking by the way, being a fool himself, supposes all men 33 Praise| speak,” says he, “like a fool. I am more.” As if it could 34 Praise| them believe him a greater fool than the rest, but when 35 Praise| of folly, “I speak like a fool,” because he knew it was 36 Praise| this text, “I speak as a fool, I am more,” drew a new 37 Praise| matter also—“I speak like a fool,” that is, if you look upon 38 Praise| if you look upon me as a fool for comparing myself with 39 Praise| shall seem yet a greater fool by esteeming myself before 40 Praise| and again, “Take me as a fool,” and further, “I speak 41 Praise| to be wise, let him be a fool that he may be wise.” And 42 Praise| in some manner became a fool when taking upon him the 43 Praise| laughed at him as a doting fool and cast him out of their 44 Praise| Greek proverb, “Sometimes a fool may speak a word in season,”