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" And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind. "

Thomas Keneally

" Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. "

" Beauty and folly are old companions. "

Benjamin Franklin

" Folly always knows the answer. "

" Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. "

" Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. "

" For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom. "

" He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" His foe was folly and his weapon wit. "

" Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars. "

" If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. "

" I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. "

" It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. "

" It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. "

Richard Whately

" It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly. "

J. R. R. Tolkien

" It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" Life should never be viewed from the vantage point of achievements. It is total folly. "

John Mellencamp

" Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. "

" Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. "

" Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. "

Charles Simmons

" One man's folly is another man's wife. "

" The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure. "

" The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. "

Pliny the Elder

" The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. "

" The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. "

" The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly. "

Alexander Hamilton

" The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. "

Harriet Beecher Stowe

" Those who realize their folly are not true fools. "

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