#follies

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It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.


Jerome K. Jerome


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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.


Arthur Schopenhauer


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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.


Josh Billings


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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 human nature and the failures of human nature.


Morris West


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What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.


William S. Paley


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We should begin to remind people they are always after your money and if you are on something around average earnings you really don't have that spare capacity to pay for all these follies that Labour keep spending their money on.


John Redwood


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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 in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.


Lemony Snicket


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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.


Voltaire


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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.


Edward Gibbon


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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.


Benjamin Franklin


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