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No fool like an old fool

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Origin of: No fool like an old fool

No fool like an old fool

This adage appears in John Heywood Proverbs (1546) in the form of there is no fool to the old fool. It first appears in its more common form there is no fool like an old fool in John Lyly’s Mother Bombie (1592).