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A deal like this is the fuel hedge of the cruise industry: It looks great when the chips are down, but it could come to represent a folly's worth of lost revenue if the biz picks up by next summer.

Jaunted - The Pop Culture Travel Guide 2009

Some men are sick and die for pure folly's sake, or for business.

The First Soprano Mary Hitchcock

"Hate's yell, or envy's hiss, or folly's bray" -- what are they to a man who, in the face of events such as now confront us, is doing that which his conscience dictates to him do?

The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) Various

If, full of hope, our eye turns to some glorious planet, and we fondly deem that _there_, may our dreams of happiness _here, _ be perpetuated; surely in such poetical fancy, there is little to condemn, and much that may wean us from folly's idle cravings.

A Love Story A Bushman

If we do, we shall pay our folly's price in the forfeiture of that, without which, however we may pretend, we never are or can be happy; preferring to go without the very greatest of all earthly good, because it is not what, perhaps, it may be in heaven.

The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies An American Lady

Stripped bare of affectation's garb and wisdom's pose and folly's sham.

The Path to Home 1920

Thy heart is altogether pitiless: thou art altogether in folly's grasp.

Four Arthurian Romances de Troyes Chr��tien 1914

'Some man must save thee from thy folly's fruits,' he said.

Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906

"But whin was a young man, high or low, the other av a fool, I'd like to know?" said Mulvaney, "Sure, folly's the only safe way to wisdom, for I've thried it."

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

Was it with army or with fleet on folly's quest he went?

Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1880