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Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a manâ€™s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a certain… — Henry Mackenzie
I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies. — Harry Browne
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. — Mary Wortley Montagu
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of… — Morris West
Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the chronicle of a… — Philip Gourevitch
Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek to break the… — William George Jordan
I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been devotional and… — Elizabeth Fry
Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more. — Walter Scott
The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid… — Robert Burns
Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost. — William Feather
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions. — Claud Cockburn
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. — Ambrose Bierce
We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has… — John Wyndham
For the rest of my life there are two days that will never again trouble me. The first day is yesterday with all its blunders… — Og Mandino
Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of… — William Hazlitt
Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the… — George Orwell
A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. — Helen Rowland
It was not one folly that Shakespeare talked about. If Love truly is but a myriad of follies then I have committed them all, that… — Faraaz Kazi
Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured… — Giacomo Casanova
Were the talents and virtues which heaven has bestowed on men given merely to make them more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies… — Samuel Adams
Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all… — Izaak Walton
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies. — Josh Billings
Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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