Word: fooled
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...Humph!" ejaculated young Brown. "I always thought he was something between a snob and a fool...
...Fond fool! to hope that thou wilt...
...government are subject to removal for inadequate performance of duty, or for misconduct." There was no moral doubt of misconduct in this case, although, from the nature of the offence, there may have been a legal doubt. It was not to be expected that any one would be fool enough to come forward and confess that he had bribed a tutor. It would have been hard, however, to have found any undergraduate who had not frequently heard of his doings. We are perfectly aware that a story may spread from a small beginning, but when a large number of reports...
...common view that those popular men who, when occasion calls, express themselves against vicious talk or acts are manly, and that those whose popularity is due to a careful avoidance of expressing disapprobation at such talk and acts are not manly. The independent man would be a fool if he felt no respect for the esteem of the former, or contempt for that of the latter. Ossip, finally, is wrong when he says that we "merely" say "popularity is the result of insincerity." Our words were : "Popularity may result legitimately from truthfulness, or illegitimately from insincerity...
...Fool I was! I saw my blunder...