"The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself."

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"The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself."

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"Folly always knows the answer."

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"If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them."

Samuel Hopkins, American Clergyman

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"The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity."

Harriet Beecher Stowe, American Author

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"That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones."

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"Shall we their fond pageant see?Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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

George Ade, American Playwright

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"The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all."

John Green, American Author

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"If he had known unstructured space is a delugeand stocked his log house-boat with all the animals even the wolves, he might have floated. But obstinate hestated, The land is solid and stamped, watching his foot sink down through the stone up to his knee. From "Progressive insanities of a pioneer."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous."

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"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."

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"Folly always knows the answer."

"If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them."

"The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity."

"That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones."

"Shall we their fond pageant see?Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

"One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs."

"Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax."

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

"The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all."

"If he had known unstructured space is a delugeand stocked his log house-boat with all the animals even the wolves, he might have floated. But obstinate hestated, The land is solid and stamped, watching his foot sink down through the stone up to his knee. From "Progressive insanities of a pioneer."

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"An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful."

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"For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous."

"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."

"I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous."