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... Folly Fools Foppery Forbearance Force Foreboding Forethought Forgetfulness Forgiveness Formalism Forms Fortitude Fortune Fraud Freedom FreeThinking Fretfulness Friendship Frugality Futurity Future State G. Gain Gallantry Gambling Gayety ...
... Folly Fools Foppery Forbearance Force Foreboding Forethought Forgetfulness Forgiveness Formalism Forms Fortitude Fortune Fraud Freedom FreeThinking Fretfulness Friendship Frugality Futurity Future State G. Gain Gallantry Gambling Gayety ...
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... folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.—Addison. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of twenty to ...
... folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.—Addison. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of twenty to ...
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... folly to regard, scarcely one meets with less success than affectation, which is a perpetual disguise of the real character by false appearances.—Johnson. Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, and smaller faults of our ...
... folly to regard, scarcely one meets with less success than affectation, which is a perpetual disguise of the real character by false appearances.—Johnson. Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, and smaller faults of our ...
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... folly.—Johnson. Affectation proceeds either from vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters to gain applause, so hypocrisy sets us on the endeavor to avoid censures by concealing our vices under the ...
... folly.—Johnson. Affectation proceeds either from vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters to gain applause, so hypocrisy sets us on the endeavor to avoid censures by concealing our vices under the ...
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... folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a Clod or not.—Bismarck. An agnostic is a man who doesn't know whether ...
... folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a Clod or not.—Bismarck. An agnostic is a man who doesn't know whether ...
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