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These are beings of the great neuter species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a little folly,
Les Miserables 2008
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Wildly behind they rushed and wildly before to the folly,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Wildly behind they rushed and wildly before to the folly,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Chynon, who not onely by his countenance but likewise his folly,
The Decameron 2004
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She began to smile; and at once, to repair his folly,
Madame Bovary 2003
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A grin, without humor, to underline his own folly,
Witch World Norton, Andre 1963
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Virtues in Bluster and his followers e.g. shall with all the Benefactors to a man, be pronounced both a fool and a Knave: shall be opposed and abused on all occasions: e. contra if he sees, and says he sees, one fault, folly,
John Adams diary 9, includes notes and draft essay, 1 - 11 February 1763, [June - July 1763] 1961
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Wildly behind they rushed and wildly before to the folly,
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
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Extol not thyself in the thoughts of thy soul like a bull: lest thy strength be quashed by folly,
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Extol not thyself in the thoughts of thy soul like a bull: lest thy strength be quashed by folly,
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision
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