"Folly is a child of power."

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"The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another."

Joseph Roux, French Clergyman

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"Lord what fools these mortals be!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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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"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."

Queen Victoria, British Royalty

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"A law can be both economic folly and constitutional."

Antonin Scalia, American Judge

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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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"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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"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."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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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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"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."

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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

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"Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism."

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"Books are humanity in print."

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"The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard."

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"The affair made men feel larger than life."

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"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."

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"Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it."

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