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#folly

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What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.


John Howe


#dread #folly #life #once #parcels

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.


Thomas Huxley


#folly #injustice #just #makes #neither

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.


John Quincy Adams


#folly #honest #honesty #long #men

A good folly is worth what you pay for it.


George Ade


#good #pay #worth #you

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.


Queen Victoria


#cannot #checking #contain #enlist #everyone

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.


Herbert Spencer


#fill #folly #fools #men #result

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.


Ambrose Bierce


#acquaintance #already #embraced #enables #folly

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.


Andrew Coyle Bradley


#assert #deserved #did #folly #healthy

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.


Lord Byron


#folly #loves #martyrdom

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.


Miguel de Cervantes


#folly #greater #man #than #world






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