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

Folly, Cleverness, Nothing, Obstinacy

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

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Queen Victoria, British Royalty

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Antonin Scalia, American Judge

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Regret

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Time

"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong."

Music

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"I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place."

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

"Folly always knows the answer."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong."

"A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell."

"It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done."

"I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation."

"I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place."