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follies
1. “Didn’t your commander ever lecture you on the follies of assaulting a soldier with the high ground?”
2. 11 Give him no liberty in his youth, and wink not at his follies
3. The comic relief called human follies
4. follies to record them in what some would call my confession, and what I would call the
5. - But what amount of follies you said, Camila! Do you think it is very nice what you just said? Witchcraft has centuries of existence and its potions, spells and witches have subsisted without your intervention; but if you are so worried about the flavors, scents and ingredients, then, become a cooker instead of a sorceress! -This was the only answer I got when she got out of the basement giving a slammed door
6. But what follies was I thinking? With my disappearance she would surely return to the conquest; and she will be closer to Leonardo to provide him comfort with her skirts, necklines and Carnival dolphins parading through her breasts
7. When all was said and done, my book on intelligence follies had three editors and three proofreaders, although not all could be described as competent
8. All of humankind’s nautical foibles and follies
9. “Their indiscretions, follies and crimes mean nothing to me
10. We must never be ashamed of showing ourselves boldly on Christ's side, by honouring His word, His day, and His ordinances, by speaking up for Christ's cause on all proper occasions, and by firmly refusing to conform to the sins and the follies of the children of this world
11. What an irony of life is that it often tends one to be the victim of others’ follies
12. And it was not long before Muhammad’s Arabic socio-religious mix, facilitated by the Brahman follies and abetted by the Rajput foibles, made the land of the Hindus the most populous Muslim part of the planet
13. What might even be worse for the country is that as calamities follow the follies of man, more and more of India’s political future could be mortgaged in the Muslim Vote Banks, and the bankers do become confiscators for their defaulting clientele
14. Power has its crimes and follies and misfortunes of mankind
15. Poverty and follies hides togather behind the unfavorable companion
16. Laughing at your mistakes and follies is the best medicine for you
17. And so it came about that because it was long past luncheon-time, and I had walked far, and it was hot, I found myself growing sentimental over the poor dead Finn; inclined to envy him because he could go on resting there while I had to find a way back to Binz in the heat and excuse my absence to an offended cousin; launching, indignant at his having been denied Christian burial, into a whole sea of woful reflections on the spites and follies of mankind, from which a single piece of bread would have rescued me
18. And as for the gay goddess's ugly sister, the lady of the shifty eye and lowering brow called variously Misfortune and Ill Luck, she uses the same tools exactly in her hammering out of lives, meanly taking little follies and little weaknesses, so little and so amiable at first as hardly to be distinguished from little virtues, and with them building up a mighty mass that shall at last come down and crush our souls
19. beautifully wrapped in a series of sensually appetizing follies, which revealed souls have called
20. For You all the follies of sin I resign
21. failings and follies, and it leads you down the path of great delusion, destruction and injustice
22. Consequently, humanity is now repeating the mistakes and follies of the past that led
23. The successors have become impoverished through their follies, or from the fall in the value of land
24. These ancient follies will never be able to deliver, since they are a very big part of the
25. eventually understand the great extent of the long-term follies of money and empire
26. follies before gaining the humility to grasp that they have been duped onto the wrong paths
27. Ancient Israel was provided wisdom, and instead chose the great follies of religion,
28. specific follies and errors to avoid and as proof of the truth about many things
29. institutions, motivations and greatest follies
30. Furthermore, imposing the many follies and
31. based on these three great follies
32. Young women have committed similar follies often before, and have repented them in poverty and obscurity often before
33. "It seems to me," said Sancho, "that the knights who behaved in this way had provocation and cause for those follies and penances; but what cause has your worship for going mad? What lady has rejected you, or what evidence have you found to prove that the lady Dulcinea del Toboso has been trifling with Moor or Christian?"
34. "Retentio," answered Sancho, "means that whoever is in hell never comes nor can come out of it, which will be the opposite case with your worship or my legs will be idle, that is if I have spurs to enliven Rocinante: let me once get to El Toboso and into the presence of my lady Dulcinea, and I will tell her such things of the follies and madnesses (for it is all one) that your worship has done and is still doing, that I will manage to make her softer than a glove though I find her harder than a cork tree; and with her sweet and honeyed answer I will come back through the air like a witch, and take your worship out of this purgatory that seems to be hell but is not, as there is hope of getting out of it; which, as I have said, those in hell have not, and I believe your worship will not say anything to the contrary
35. Can you hold your hand against all seductions, follies, whirls,
36. March looked silently at the downcast face of her pretty daughter, and could not find it in her heart to blame her little follies
37. "So I believe," replied Sancho; "but I think it will be difficult for your worship to speak with her or see her, at any rate where you will be able to receive her blessing; unless, indeed, she throws it over the wall of the yard where I saw her the time before, when I took her the letter that told of the follies and mad things your worship was doing in the heart of Sierra Morena
38. They need by turns to dream and to act, the purest passions and the most turbulent joys, and thus they fling themselves into all sorts of fantasies, of follies
39. Unlucky wretch that I am, what an end my follies and fancies have come to! They'll take up my bones out of this, when it is heaven's will that I'm found, picked clean, white and polished, and my good Dapple's with them, and by that, perhaps, it will be found out who we are, at least by such as have heard that Sancho Panza never separated from his ass, nor his ass from Sancho Panza
40. attacking my weak side, made a confession of his follies, and lamented the
41. sex, and filled up with only the worst vices and follies of ours; that, in
42. wisest and gravest throw off the usual rigidity of their lives, and deign to mingle in the follies
43. The follies and disloyalty committed in his youth were to be expiated by a long and painful penance, ere he could be restored to the full enjoyment of the confidence of his ancient people; and without confidence there could be no authority in an Indian tribe
44. The boy triumphed, and this victory rendered him so audacious, that all the money of Assunta, whose affection for him seemed to increase as he became more unworthy of it, was spent in caprices she knew not how to contend against, and follies she had not the courage to prevent
45. The shortest follies are best, my dear Caderousse
46. and false beards and such childish follies
47. as to the thing itself, the less said of it was the better; but that though she might be suspected of partiality, from its being the common cause of womankind, out of whose mouths this practice tended to take something more than bread, yet she protested against any mixture of passion, with a declaration extorted from her by pure regard to truth; which was, that whatever effect this infamous passion had in other ages and other countries, it seemed a peculiar blessing on our air and climate, that there was a plaguespot visibly imprinted on all that are tainted with it, in this nation at least, for that among numbers of that stamp whom she had known, or at least were universally under the scandalous suspicion of it, she would not name an exception hardly to one of them, whose character was not, in all other respects, the most worthless and despicable that could be; stript of all the manly virtues of their own sex, and filled up with only the worst vices and follies of ours; that, in fine, they were scarce less execrable than ridiculous in their monstrous inconsistence, of loathing and contemning women, and at the same time apeing all their manners, airs, lisps, scuttle, and, in general, all their little modes of affectation, which become them at least better, than they do these unsexed, male misses
48. Yet in the midst of all these follies we stumbled into a television studio in Cologne and delivered the only videotaped performance of us in which I can begin to see what all the fuss was about
49. "I don't wish to add murder to my other follies," he said
50. And sport with human follies, not with crimes
