The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.
Jane AustenTags: perception education empowerment equality girls reason men women stupidity prejudice ignorance foolishness stereotypes disdain clichés charms desirability folly imbecility inferiority
...swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been
Louisa May AlcottTags: folly
All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.
Louisa May AlcottTags: folly
...for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
Louisa May AlcottTags: folly
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert SpencerTags: folly
How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly?
C.R. StrahanTags: arrogance absolution folly intelligent-men
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
Jane AustenTags: love romance vanity denial affection blindness refusal folly
The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them."
(The Decider, July 21, 2007)
Tags: politics humour ideas ridicule idiocy folly dunning-kruger-effect
Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.
Ambrose BierceTags: humor worship folly senses creature heathen
Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.
Another is Deity.
The choice to be a fool is yours.
Tags: love belief god faith hope wonder deity folly intangible
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