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“Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!”

Ifs Men Character Would Be Rights Equal Cease Folly Detrimental

Author:Ernestine Rose

“Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.”

People Men World Believe Certain Father Class Talent Industry Birth Angel Rose Vanity Folly Sentiments Boast Apes Ancestry Shabby

Book:The Martyrdom of Man

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.”

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Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.”

Men Fool Vanity Folly

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.”

Men Mind May Art Eye Form Hours Walks Wise Meditation Genius Solitude Tables Calm Crowds Folly Distraction Artificial Retired Assembly

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.”

Ifs Men Mind Light Heaven Wise Wind Reflection Flow Blow East Folly

Author:Edmund Spenser