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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
Josh Billings
Man
Every
Follies
He
Most
Got
His
Often
Interesting
Interesting Thing
Thing
Every Man
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
Nature
Law
First
Other
Our
Weakness
Follies
Mutually
Pardon
First Law
Errors
Us
Full
Each
Let Us
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
H. L. Mencken
Believe
Follies
Costly
True
Most
Occupation
Passionately
Chief
Mankind
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness
Health
Sacrifice
Other
Kind
Follies
Greatest
Any
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Benjamin Franklin
War
Follies
Mischievous
Very
Expensive
Wars
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
D. H. Lawrence
Myself
Youth
Care
Will
Thinking
Those
Follies
About
Most
Woeful
Cure
Cannot
Mean
Us
Much
Who
Things
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Jonathan Swift
Life
Wise
Latter
Follies
Part
Occupied
Opinions
False
Contracted
Curing
Person
Prejudices
Earlier
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Youth
Worth
Mistakes
Our
Spend
Follies
Manhood
Anything
Us
Who
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
Helen Rowland
Life
Man
Opportunity
Those
Follies
Had
He
Most
His
Commit
Which
Regrets
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
Other
Sympathy
Our
Virtues
Faults
Find
Follies
Touch
Failings
Each
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
Bernard Baruch
Life
Thought
Whatever
Action
Follies
Failures
Known
Without
Witnessed
Private
Been
Errors
Committed
Public
Public Life
Consequence
I was thrilled to be rehired for the 1919 'Follies.' Mr. Ziegfeld himself hired me. To me, that particular 'Follies' was his greatest 'Follies' of all - not because I was in the show, but because of the great cast and memorable music.
Doris Eaton Travis
Music
Great
Me
Memorable
Follies
Thrilled
Cast
Particular
Himself
Because
Greatest
Hired
His
Show
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
History
Crimes
Indeed
Follies
More
Misfortunes
Than
Little
Register
Mankind
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
You
Trust
Book
Architecture
National
Guide
Pleasure
Mad
Laughing
Follies
Architect
Folly
Only
Implied
Calling
Sort
Get
Same
Happened
Which
Dispute
Thing
The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
Joseph Addison
Day
Culture
Mind
Single
Constant
Lies
Follies
Only
Single Day
Fallow
Up
As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day.
Om Malik
Day
You
Every Day
Every
Tell
Has-Been
One Thing
Follies
Someone
Wrong
Reminds
Sure
Hindsight
Been
Often
Your
Who
Thing
My dreams are all follies.
Taylor Caldwell
Dreams
Follies
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