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Pliny the Elder

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

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

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

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

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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."

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

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

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

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"Folly always knows the answer."

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"We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense."

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