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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself. Queen Victoria

Rights Women Queen Wicked Herself Everyone Furious Mad Folly Contain Checking Most She Makes Subject Anxious Cannot Which Enlist

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. Ambrose Bierce

Life Age Youth Three Folly Between Sin Remorse Period Idiocy Infancy Childhood Human Manhood Human Life Intermediate Two

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. George Eliot

Wisdom Laughter Half Vain Folly Hears Applause

One man's folly is another man's wife. Helen Rowland

Funny Man Wife Folly Another

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time. Ovid

Time Wise Delay Other Everything Hasten Folly Proper Times

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wise Folly He Without Who Lives Thinks

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life. Abraham Lincoln

Life Great Out Folly Attempt Piece Make Anything Early Early Life

Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives. Adam Hochschild

Today Lie Will Men Seen Politicians Sense Doubt Needless Others France Spendthrift Those No Doubt Someday Folly Similar Generals Tens Tens Of Millions Feel Dead Sorrow Were Loss American Revulsion Cemeteries Who Wars Belgium Lives Millions

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense. Andrew Coyle Bradley

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly. Anna Eshoo

World Will Independence Country Congress Live Think Our Way Folly Drill Idea Policy Pass Lovely Realities March

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him. Anna Julia Cooper

His foe was folly and his weapon wit. Anthony Hope

Foe Weapon Folly Wit His

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional. Antonin Scalia

Law Constitutional Folly Both Economic

Everything a teenager does, says or looks at, however transitory, contributes to an aggregated virtual self that might one day have consequences for its real-life counterpart. How many of us would keep all our relationships and reputations intact if every transgression, mistake or youthful folly was held in public view? Beeban Kidron

Day Mistake Every Consequences Virtual Teenager Relationships Our Everything Says One Day Would Folly Self Counterpart Looks Does How Intact However Public Transgression Might Transitory Reputations Us Held View Youthful Many Keep

The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger. Bill Dedman

Life Risks World Wealth Daughter Ambition Reputation Distance Danger Clark Running Threads Folly Someone Costs Through Main Outside Tension Between Safe Judging His Burdens Engaging Inherited Include Lives Keeping Fragility

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. Charles Simmons

Wisdom Age Folly Much Next

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. Cyril Connolly

Wisdom Ignorance Darkness Passion Folly Purity Infatuation Avarice

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. Elizabeth Gaskell

Wisdom Wise People Better Sometimes Folly Foolish Wise People Likes Than

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived. Francis Quarles

Fear Impossible Nothing Defeat Possibility Secure Folly Prevent Thy Industry Than Confident May Cannot Deprived Fortune Less Avoided

The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every man brings different instincts and ideas into the world with him. George A. Moore

Life Good Property Man World Ethics Personal Life Every Society Unknown Our East Invade Folly Instincts Ideas Knowing Well Him West Personal Different Holds Manner Much Oriental Stands Right Brings Every Man

I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt towards the central government when I got here on January 1, 1970 has pretty much dissipated at the hands of the government. George Will

Government Confidence Witness Whatever Pretty Folly Towards Felt Got Years Lot Up Optimism Close Hands Central Central Government January Much Washington Lived Now Here

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love. Henry Fielding

Love Natural Mark Correct Those Folly Attempt Perhaps Surer Than

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