"To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]"
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"The older a fool is, the worse he is."
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"Vanity, not love, has been my folly."
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"Knowledge without wisdom is double folly."
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"If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others."
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"The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason."
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"Folly growes without watering."
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"It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones."
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"I was also built from delusional optimism and folly."
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"Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes."
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"Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks."
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"We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder."
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"The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly."
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"There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]"
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"Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace."
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"If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]"
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"Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart."
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"Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard."
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"By their own follies they perished, the fools."
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"Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly."
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