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“Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.”

Has Beens Laughing Wise Wine Silent Folly

Author:Homer

“The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked.”

Has Beens Turns Rocks Misery Vices Newspapers Burning Folly Warning Multitudes Beacons Admonition

Author:Thomas Hartwell Horne

“But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.”

Has Beens I Can Self Injustice Folly Domination Self Reliant

Book:Memoirs, with special reference to secession and the Civil War

Source: Memoirs, with special reference to secession and the Civil War

“I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I've ever said, and I used it in the follies of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can't confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.”

“The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.”

Men World Has Beens Said Wisdom Lying Differences Known Wise Fool Folly

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.”

Thinking Firsts Has Beens Reason Moral Draws Conclusion Folly Aphorism Dazzling Drawing Conclusions

Author:Bill Vaughan

“For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the United States has been twice saved in our time by the arguments formulated by Turgot.”

Has Beens Country States United United States Periods Argument Paid Saved Our Time Folly Transition Fearful Catastrophe

Book:SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON

Source: SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON