#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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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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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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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

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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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