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

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

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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

Folly, Man, Misery, Nations

"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

Folly, Reality, Nature, Insanity, Foundation

"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

Folly, Rights, Queen

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Folly, Instinct, Action, Judgment, Reaction

"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

Folly, Language, Selfishness, Sense

"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

Folly, Desire, Truth, Humanity

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

George Ade, American Playwright

Folly, Worth

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

Antonin Scalia, American Judge

Folly, Law

"Folly always knows the answer."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Folly,

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

Pliny the Elder, Roman Author

Folly, Profit

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"Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions."

Poetry

"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."

Peace

"It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent."

Talent

"Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad."

Feelings

"The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable."

Happiness

"Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes."

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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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Folly always knows the answer."

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

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"Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions."

"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."

"It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent."

"Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad."

"When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing."

"Solitude vivifies; isolation kills."

"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained."

"Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired."

"The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable."

"Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes."