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

Folly, Instinct, Action, Judgment, Reaction

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

George Ade, American Playwright

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

Pliny the Elder, Roman 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."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

Language

"Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon."

Action

"Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized."

Choice

"Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw."

Law

"Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!"

Society

"Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support."

Society

"Apologize v: to lay the foundation for a future offence."

Humor

"Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably out to be. His chief occupation is the extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada."

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"Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to."

Society

"Marriage n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master a mistress and two slaves making in all two."

Marriage