I like that word.

The human race ought to be called fools generically, as distinguished from the more intelligent animals.

If you went to England you would be as great a fool as any Englishman that comes here and drinks Trevi water by moonlight.

But I assure you I do nothing so vulgar as to patronise the fountain, any more than I would patronise Mazzarino's church, hard by.
I go to the source, the spring, the well where it rises." "Ah, I know the place well," I said.

"It is near to Serveti." "Serveti?
Is that not in the vicinity of Horace's villa ?" "You know the country well, I see," said I, sadly.
"I know most things," answered the Jew, with complacency.