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“It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.”

Knows Men Fellows Proof Lust Folly Justify Fallacy Crass

Book:Selected Short Stories

Source: Selected Short Stories

“Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves the willing dupes and drudges of these mountebanks, I consider reformation and redress as desperate, and abandon them to the Quixotism of more enthusiastic minds.”

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 8: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815

“This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.”

Men Wells Kind Persons Art Enough Play Shows Eye Fall Quality Wise Fool Fit Fellows Wit Mood Checks His Eyes Folly Labour Feathers Crave Practise Viola Haggard

Book:Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will

Source: Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will

“You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.”

Want Light Inspiration Joy Stars Millions Relationship Sea Madness Fellows Selfishness Folly Divinity I Want You Soulmate Nameless Purification Vagabonds Transfiguration

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.”

Men Ends Life Is Hell Fellows Finals Mortals Folly Spite Wickedness Annihilation

Author:Marquis de Sade

“His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.”

Men Giving Heart Soul Blue Fellows Folly Heart And Soul

Book:A Shropshire Lad

Source: A Shropshire Lad

“The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with life will not stand up under scrutiny. Sin is basically an act of moral folly, and the greater the folly the greater the fool.”

Wells Christian Sin Moral Greater Stupid Serious Fool Smart Fellows Notion Folly Sinner Careless Scrutiny

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer