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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:10450
AUTHOR:Appendix
QUOTATION:Paradise of fools; Fool’s paradise.
ATTRIBUTION:The earliest instance of this expression is found in William Bullein’s “Dialogue,” p. 28 (1573). It is used by Shakespeare, Middleton, Milton, Pope, Fielding, Crabbe, and others.
 

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