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

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

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Joseph Roux, French 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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"One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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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"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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"Folly always knows the answer."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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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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"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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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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