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Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. — Jane Austen
I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little… — Jane Austen
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites… — Jane Austen
Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay… — Daniel Handler
What is life but a series of inspired follies... — George Bernard Shaw
For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as… — J.R.R. Tolkien
love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit — William Shakespeare
With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings. — Robert Walser
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every… — George Bernard Shaw
What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps,… — Julian Barnes
To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies. — Oscar Wilde
[Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been there in your… — Dorothy Dunnett
Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves. — Marcel Proust
The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than… — Richard Paul Evans
What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state… — Alexandre Dumas
The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the… — Catherine Fisher
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost,… — Jane Austen
It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments. — Christopher Paolini
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks. — William Faulkner
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our… — Jerome K. Jerome
Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach. — Oliver Goldsmith
If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies. — Samuel Johnson

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