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Letter "F" » follies
«'Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away»
Author: Edward Rowland Sill
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follies
«Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.»
«All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
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Youth
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expiate, expiating, follies, unlearning
«Ever since Follies have pleas'd, Fools have been able to divert»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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divert, follies
«Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.»
«Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies»
«Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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Fashion
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condemns, follies
«Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation»
«But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit»
«But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit, For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Love
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blush, Cupid, follies, transformed
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