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While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), First Inaugural Adress, march 4, 1861
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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong felling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.: Sir Robert Peel

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

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 (1871 - 1945)
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
'If a person were to try stripping the disguises from actors while they play a scene upon stage, showing to the audience their real looks and the faces they were born with, would not such a one spoil the whole play ? And would not the spectators think he deserved to be driven out of the theatre with brickbats, as a drunken disturber ?... Now what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage ? Moreover, this manager frequently bids the same actor to go back in a different costume, so that he who has but lately played the king in scarlet now acts the flunkey in patched clothes. Thus all things are presented by shadows.': Erasmus, The Praise of Folly
Childhood, n. 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 (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Experience, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.: Richard Adams, _Watership Down_

Results from Poor Man's College:

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines.: Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)

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