born fool

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You must be among your brothers, as I am among mine—a born fool.

From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Harding, Emily J.

There's an old saying that neither money, education, liquor, nor women ever made a fool of a man, they just give a born fool a chance to display his foolishness.

From Anchorite by Schelling, George Luther

"Wat talks like a natural born fool," retorted the wife.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton

"Were it even possible that I did," says she, "do ye think that I wad be sic a born fool as to tell ye?—Atweel do I no!"

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various

And he made for Buncombe, and I had to hold them apart; and there was Adams in the middle, gone luny again, and carrying on about copra like a born fool.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis