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follies
«I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies--thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.»
«It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.»
«In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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aberration, aberrations, childish, directing, equilibrium, follies, inheriting, justifies, Left Behind, naively
«How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.»
«History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
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History
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follies, misfortunes, register, registered, registering, registers, The Register
«In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach.»
«If we believe that he (Jesus Christ) really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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biographer, biographers, countenanced, falsehoods, fathers, follies, Jesus Christ
«Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Friendship
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alliance, follies, miseries, misfortunes, volunteers