A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.
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Richard Adams
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
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Elizabeth Gaskell
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
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Samuel Johnson
A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom.
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J.r.r. Tolkien
She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog, ' sir.
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Charles Dickens
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