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A Fool's Paradise
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A Fool's Paradise : Phrases
Meaning:
A state of happiness based on false hope.
Example:
Do not live A Fool's Paradise. Your marks is not as high as you know.
Origin:
An early phrase, first recorded in the Paston Letters, 1462:
"I wold not be in a folis paradyce."
Shakespeare later used it in Romeo and Juliet.
Nurse:
Now, afore God, I am so vexed,
that every part about
me quivers. Scurvy knave! Pray you, sir, a word:
and as I told you, my young lady bade me inquire you
out; what she bade me
say, I will keep to myself:
but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her
into
a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross
kind of behavior,
as they say: for the gentlewoman
is young; and, therefore, if you should deal
double
with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered
to any gentlewoman,
and very weak dealing.
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