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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
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If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
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The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
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Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
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Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
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Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime.
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Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
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Everything a teenager does, says or looks at, however transitory, contributes to an aggregated virtual self that might one day have consequences for its real-life counterpart. How many of us would keep all our relationships and reputations intact if every transgression, mistake or youthful folly was held in public view?
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Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
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Folly is the direct pursuit of Happiness and Beauty.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903) #103
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