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'Tis folly to be wise.

Thomas Gray

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Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

Robert South

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Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

Tom Robbins

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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

Pliny the Elder

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

William Blake

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The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Derek Jarman

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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

William Blake

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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Samuel Johnson

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To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.

William Samuel Johnson

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It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

Richard Whately

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Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

Richard Cecil

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The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Joseph Roux

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There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

Henry Fielding

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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Warren Buffett

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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Alexander Pope

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

Thomas Huxley

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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

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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Ambrose Bierce

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Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.

Shelby Foote

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The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.

Moses Mendelssohn

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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Winston Churchill

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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.

Francis Quarles

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Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

Mary Astell

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Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

Marguerite Duras

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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?

Beeban Kidron

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