#folly

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. ↗

— Derek Jarman

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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. ↗

— Joseph Roux

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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. ↗

— Charles Simmons

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It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

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