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I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.
Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.
Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.
Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.
Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.
To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.
Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.
History will prove me right. This is an exercise in folly.
It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly.
The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.
Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.
To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.
The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.
Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.
of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.
The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.
The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue.
It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.