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  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

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 Edward B. Lent

There’s no fool like an old fool, my dear.

From The Rough Road by William John Locke

"There's no fool like an old fool," she quoted with a spark of her girlhood fire.

From The Calling of Dan Matthews by Harold Bell Wright

In my nervousness I dropped the cage, and before I knew it I heard a voice over my head, saying, "There's no fool like an old fool!"

From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield

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