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  There's no fool like an old fool

  The most extreme fools are people whose age should have made them wise.
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  An old fool is the worst kind of fool, as in He's marrying a woman fifty years his junior—there's no fool like an old fool. This adage, now considered somewhat offensive for stereotyping old people, appeared in John Heywood's 1546 proverb collection and has been repeated ever since.

There's no fool like an old fool

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1. The most extreme fools are people whose age should have made them wise.

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no fool like an old fool, there's Idioms  

1. An old fool is the worst kind of fool, as in He's marrying a woman fifty years his junior—there's no fool like an old fool. This adage, now considered somewhat offensive for stereotyping old people, appeared in John Heywood's 1546 proverb collection and has been repeated ever since.

2. see no fool like an old fool.

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There's no fool like an old fool

"There's no fool like an old fool," he continued.

From Fox News ● Feb. 11, 2020

Hence the saying, "There's no fool like an old fool."

From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)

I wanted to get him in a frame of mind where he would turn on himself and say, "There's no fool like an old fool."

From Cupid's Middleman by Lent, Edward B.

"There's no fool like an old fool, you know," he answered.

From The Colonel of the Red Huzzars by Scott, John Reed

It meant, "There's no fool like an old fool."

From First Plays by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)