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Folly Quotes
"There is no fire like passion. There is no shark like hatred. There is no snare like folly. There is no torrent like greed."
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Buddha
"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly."
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Samuel Johnson
"And so being young and dipt in folly I fell in love with melancholy"
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Edgar Allan Poe
"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
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George Bernard Shaw
"A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel."
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Arundhati Roy
"There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men "
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Herman Melville
"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness"
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Clever in small things, foolish in bigger ones."
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Benjamin Franklin
"The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction."
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Aesop