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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Any Follies Greatest Happiness Health Kind Other Sacrifice

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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

~Benjamin Franklin

Topics: Expensive Follies Mischievous Very Wars

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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

Topics: Action Been Committed Consequence Errors Failures Follies Known Life Private Public Public Life Thought Whatever Without Witnessed

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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

Topics: About Cannot Care Cure Follies Mean Most Much Myself Things Thinking Those Us Who Will Youth

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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

Topics: Because Cast Follies Great Greatest Himself Hired His Me Memorable Music Particular Show Thrilled Mr

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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Topics: Aphorism Attracted Been Conclusions Dazzling Draw Extract First Follies How Learned Life Many Moral Reason Some Think Us

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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

~Edward Gibbon

Topics: Crimes Follies History Indeed Little Mankind Misfortunes More Register Than

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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

~Edward Gibbon

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