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Folly Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
- Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,…
- No creature smarts so little as a fool.
- Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
- Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier…
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- When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. — Abu Bakr
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- Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been… — Bernard Baruch
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