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

Folly, Profit

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

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"Lord what fools these mortals be!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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."

Andrew Coyle Bradley, American Judge

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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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"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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"Folly always knows the answer."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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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 good folly is worth what you pay for it."

George Ade, American Playwright

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

Antonin Scalia, American Judge

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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

Folly, Stupidity, Madness, Life, Ignorance

"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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"From the end spring new beginnings."

Beginning

"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."

Nature

"Home is where the heart is."

Home

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

Acquisition

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

Reputation

"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."

Darkness

"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."

Fear

"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."

Authors

"The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth."

Wealth

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

Certainty