#follies

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. ↗

— Josh Billings

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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

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