#follies

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 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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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. ↗

— Voltaire

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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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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. ↗