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When an illiterate gets angry, you’ll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice...

—Jane Austen

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Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

—Robert A. Heinlein

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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

—Benjamin Franklin

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The more vast the amount of time we’ve left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it. This pronouncement seems to state the obvious and yet it is false....

—Milan Kundera

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I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the late James Watt, who said … that I deserved hanging for bringing into...

—James Watt

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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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Just as smiles often follow tears, the sun rose full and bright on the morning..

—Georgina Grey

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He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

—Samuel Johnson

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Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as “the most flagrant of all passions.

—Barbara W. Tuchman

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4.10 ANGERAnger makes a dull man witty,But keeps him poor in eternity,A man shrinks when he is angry,And grows in tranquil serenity.[90]- 4When anger flow in the body,You lose your temper – your folly,When distempered...

—Munindra Misra

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Tant que mes jambes me permettent de fuir, tant que mes bras me permettent de combattre, tant que l’expérience que j’ai du monde me permet de savoir ce que je peux craindre ou désirer, nulle...

—Henri Laborit

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A rat in its stealing behavior may manage to steal gold jewelry and to make a nest with it but that does not in anyway qualify the rat to be a millionaire though it’s gold...

—Newton Gatambia

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Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.

—Ambrose Bierce

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Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of...

—Jane Austen

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Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

—William Faulkner

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A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. Mankind, it seems, makes a poorer performance of government than of almost any...

—Barbara W. Tuchman

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Everyone has known this condition of mind, though perhaps not all in the same degree; everyone will recognise it as the condition in which he has done brave things with apparent serenity; and everyone reading...

—Lew Wallace

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He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

—François de

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Chanu spoke loudly, he weighed his words like gold and threw them about like a fool.

—Monica Ali

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His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

—Anthony Hope

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…and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

—James Lee Burke

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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

—Walter Scott

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She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have...

—Charles Dickens

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For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life trying to impress the ‘natives,’ and so in every crisis he has got to do what the ‘natives’ expect of him…...

—George Orwell

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Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.

—Patrick Rothfuss

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MAUSOLEUM, n. The final and funniest folly of the rich.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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The greatest wisdom is indistinguishable from the greatest folly.

—Marty Rubin

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Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn’t be racing to begin with. Or is it...

—Stephen King

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National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent...

—Carl Sagan

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It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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There’s fool’s gold—pyrite—and then there’s fool’s gold—gold owned by idiots willing to trade it for worthless dollars.

—Jarod Kintz

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Stupidity is not a behavior; it’s a religion. One can die for it!

—Raheel Farooq

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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has ‘never had a chance, poor devil’, you are profoundly mistaken. One...

—Margot Asquith

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As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful to them, what is agreeable. The second is the tendency toward...

—Rémy de

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How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly?

—C.R. Strahan

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It is true. Indeed, that is why I dared not speak. I have yearned to be again at the side of my beloved Arianllyn, and my thoughts are with her now. But had I chosen...

—Lloyd Alexander

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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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Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it’s when the idiot laughs at you.

—Raheel Farooq

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It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its...

—Alain de Botton

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How old must you be before words can no longer fool you?

—Marty Rubin

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Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.Another is Deity.The choice to be a fool is yours.

—Vera Nazarian

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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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I prefer the wisdom of the unlearned to the folly of the loquacious

—Marcus Tullius

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Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted?

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

—Raheel Farooq

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It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they’re used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we...

—Arundhati Roy

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A fool who cursed the sun was surprised to see it still shining.

—Marty Rubin

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If thou remember’st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.

—William Shakespeare

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