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Here are the quotes with the word folly in them. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. — George Orwell 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 It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. — Joseph Addison

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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

-George Orwell

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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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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

-Joseph Addison

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We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.

-Thomas Frank

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

-Beverly Sills

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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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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

-George Bernard Shaw

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Beauty and folly are old companions.

-Benjamin Franklin

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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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Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.

-William Temple

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

-Ambrose Bierce

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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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One man's folly is another man's wife.

-Helen Rowland

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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

-Isaac Asimov

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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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The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

-Bryant McGill

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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

-Pat Robertson

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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

-Jonathan Swift

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When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

-Abu Bakr

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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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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

-Voltaire

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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

-Epicurus

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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

-Paul Valery

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Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

-Anna Julia Cooper

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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. — George Orwell
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
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. — Joseph Addison

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