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“Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7869cddc98b7919c383cc65175af8c145aa6432985de07f68c9f6efdc5020224
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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“Fools make a mock at sin.”
Unattributed
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.”
Isaac Watts
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest.”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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