born fool

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"You're a natural born fool, Lemuel!" declared his sister, so sharply that the twins, who were inadvertently listening at the door, hesitating to go in, fairly jumped.

From The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna or, The Crew That Won by Morrison, Gertrude W.

"Why, Honor, me dear, it's the born fool I am to be chattering like a parrot when you're in trouble, by the looks of it."

From The Great Amulet by Diver, Maud

D’ye suppose that I’m a born fool, Mr Barepoles, that I should try to live on the money itself?

From Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

It is only the born fool who goes from house to house and from friend to friend maundering about ill luck and an unkind Providence.

From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

"Margaret Hayley, are you a born fool?" she almost screamed.

From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Morford, Henry