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To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

Horace Mann
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Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

Aldous Huxley
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Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Pythagoras
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Anger without power is folly.

German Proverb
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It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Publilius Syrus
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Those who realize their folly are not true fools.

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

Samuel Johnson
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He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.

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

Pliny the Elder
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Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Charles Simmons
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APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

Ambrose Bierce
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Folly and a farce.

James Mcelroy
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Folly and Glory.

Larry McMurtry
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PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

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

Helen Rowland
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Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.

Bible
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A good folly is worth what you pay for it.

George Ade
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The wisdom of one generation will be the folly of the next.

Joseph Priestly
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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

Antonin Scalia
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The most dangerous folly of old people who were once attractive is to forget that they are not so any longer.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Children blessings seem, but torments are;/ When young, our folly, and when old our fear.

Thomas Otway
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Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

H. G. Bohn
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Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

Andre Norton
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For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

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

Derek Jarman
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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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To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

Edward Gorey
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