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Results of search for Quote or Author: folly - Page 1 of 4
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

One man's folly is another man's wife.
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Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950)
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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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.
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Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), 1895
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
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Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
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Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
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Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
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John Lancaster Spalding
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
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John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.
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Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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