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“There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.”

Eye Regard Pity Innocence Folly Mirth

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.”

Real Character Pride Regard Appearance Folly Endeavor Perpetual Disguise Stratagem Real Character

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life.”

Men Mind Heart Pleasure Results Understood Regard Instruments Mere Folly Toys Wickedness Fashionable Frivolity Vacuity Heartlessness

Author:Sarah Moore Grimke

“It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wisdom prepares good or evil for himself. But we may view it in another light, namely, that we may so accommodate ourselves to the dispositions of Providence as to be happy in our lot, whatever may be its privations.”

Men May Light Evil Views Expression Regard Fortune Every Man Folly Makers Providence Disposition Accommodate Proverbial Implying

Author:Alexander von Humboldt

“The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.”

Men World Running Wish Opinion Fool Gold Regard Folly Honour Toil Phantoms

Book:The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German

“I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!”

Thinking Men Persons War Interest Pleasure Sacrifice Mark Regard Folly Imaginary Quarrels Positively Obliged

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters