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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Lord what fools these mortals be!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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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"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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"It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery."

Jonathan Mayhew, American Clergyman

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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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"Folly always knows the answer."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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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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"I'm the king of bad ideas."

Lisa Kessler, American Author

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"Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen."

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"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."

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"An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit."

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"Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man."

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"In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain."

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"From the end spring new beginnings."

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"It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it."

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"Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work."

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"Home is where the heart is."

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"In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment."

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