"If you wouldn't live long, live well; for……" — Benjamin Franklin

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• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of… — Isaac Asimov
• The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the… — Mary Astell
• O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all… — Teresa of Avila
• When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. — Abu Bakr
• All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none… — John Quincy Adams
• Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life… — Bernard Baruch
• The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by… — Joseph Addison
• It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.… — Joseph Addison
• This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of… — Annie Besant
• Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already… — Ambrose Bierce
• Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes… — Ambrose Bierce
• Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. — Josh Billings

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