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    folly


    1. The anticipation of that tryst was what drew Tdeshi's hormones on this folly in the first place wasn't it? Maybe it was what Jorma taught her about Tdeshi that had made it so exciting


    2. Glenelle wondered at the folly of a nation consisting of one pill-shaped space colony three miles in diameter and forty miles long that passes in close orbit less than five hundred miles above, declaring war on a glowing industrial belt holding half a billion mortals that was longer than the distance to that orbit


    3. brothers with bar codes to ensure that all would be ordered and just in the grand folly


    4. I cried as I hugged the ball of my right foot, cursing my own stupidity and bloody-minded folly


    5. beacon for all generations when the sexes repeat the folly of Eve and Adam, and


    6. Man engineered his likeness, and then, with the shape and sequence in his hand, he learned to fear a new demon, marking his engineered brothers with bar codes to ensure that all would be ordered and just in the grand folly of empire in the heavens


    7. from the dreaming days of youth and folly,


    8. This dilapidation, this tumbledown folly


    9. She cried and cried and cried, grieving for the pride and the utter folly of her previous existence that had now laid her down so low


    10. folly of her previous existence that had now laid her down so low

    11. He that answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame unto him


    12. know wisdom, and to know madness and folly


    13. 12 I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the


    14. excels folly, as far as light excels darkness


    15. 6For fools speak folly, their hearts 203


    16. that he looked literally into the abyss and saw the folly of


    17. They are desperate, and act with the folly and extravagance of desperate men, who must either starve, or frighten their masters into an immediate compliance with their demands


    18. Your actions accomplish little more than folly


    19. convicted of the most evident folly


    20. Vain toils! their impious folly dared to prey

    21. It proves my point about the folly of a female scribe


    22. The man who borrows in order to spend will soon be ruined, and he who lends to him will generally have occasion to repent of his folly


    23. savagely through greed and lust and sheer folly


    24. The man who employs his capital in land, has it more under his view and command ; and his fortune is much less liable to accidents than that of the trader, who is obliged frequently to commit it, not only to the winds and the waves, but to the more uncertain elements of human folly and injustice, by giving great credits, in distant countries, to men with whose character and situation he can seldom be thoroughly acquainted


    25. They were introduced to preserve a certain lineal succession, of which the law of primogeniture first gave the idea, and to hinder any part of the original estate from being carried out of the proposed line, either by gift, or device, or alienation; either by the folly, or by the misfortune of any of its successive owners


    26. ” She knew that tone all too well, that pretense of folly


    27. and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it


    28. They would still, therefore, keep possession of the home market; and though a capricious man of fashion might sometimes prefer foreign wares, merely because they were foreign, to cheaper and better goods of the same kind that were made at home, this folly could, from the nature of things, extend to so few, that it could make no sensible impression upon the general employment of the people


    29. The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions, with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations: though the effect of those obstructions is always, more or less, either to encroach upon its freedom, or to diminish its security


    30. It is unnecessary, I apprehend, at present to say anything further, in order to expose the folly of a system which fatal experience has now sufficiently exposed

    31. In the political body, however, the wisdom of nature has fortunately made ample provision for remedying many of the bad effects of the folly and injustice of man ; it the same manner as it has done in the natural body, for remedying those of his sloth and intemperance


    32. It was naturally to be expected, therefore, that folly, negligence, and profusion, should prevail in the whole management of their affairs


    33. It seems to presume perfect wisdom and virtue in the one order, and the greatest weakness and folly in the other


    34. “I figured once the mortal Psyche failed at the tasks she was sent on, he’d see the folly of falling for a mortal


    35. it is highly pernicious, and it has even a natural tendency to pervert the truth, by infusing into it a strong mixture of superstition, folly, and delusion


    36. The clergy, too, like the great barons, wished to get a better rent from their landed estates, in order to spend it, in the same manner, upon the gratification of their own private vanity and folly


    37. our technology, it is the ultimate folly of the need for technological progress


    38. He saw the folly of a widespread gorilla war


    39. „The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be entrusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself to exercise it


    40. It was the folly

    41. Studying the man, Terry saw that he was dressed in the same camouflaged outfit as the gunman back at the folly and carried a similar pistol in his hand


    42. Then the folly of fools is evident and the way of the wicked is death


    43. Remembering the war and its atrocities could go a long way towards teaching Americans about the folly of so called benevolent invasions or assimilation


    44. He could never remit their folly now


    45. They suffered the ever more severe consequences of the folly of their experiment with infidelity


    46. The first was a time where a champion “rose up” to rescue the people from the folly of their spiritual infidelity


    47. She tells them that God just does not want to share with them the gifts of the gods, and there appears the human folly


    48. 25 Let not my Lord, I pray you, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal, for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with


    49. - Stop with that folly now! See whom? There is no one out in this weather, her mother said and chilled again


    50. He had asked Vera many times, in the witness of such folly, why anyone would wish a permanent record of a whimsical moment














































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    Synonyms for "folly"

    craziness folly foolery indulgence lunacy tomfoolery betise foolishness imbecility stupidity unwiseness madness flightiness thoughtlessness fickleness giddiness rashness nonsense

    "folly" definitions

    the trait of acting stupidly or rashly


    a stupid mistake


    the quality of being rash and foolish


    foolish or senseless behavior