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  • How like the Tarot card she was, of the Wise Fool, full of knowledge and utterly unworldly!

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • Agrippa's Eulogy of the Ass was in line with the tradition of the Wise Fool; and the party of the Wise Fool could appeal to Saint Paul,

    PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968

  • This theological paradox of the Wise Fool in Christ, which was to provide the rationale for so many subsequent treat - ments of the wisdom of folly, was kept alive all during the Middle Ages by such writers as Gregory the Great,

    WISDOM OF THE FOOL WALTER KAISER 1968

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