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My mother used to talk to me, I was young and foolish,
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SOCRATES: And yet men who thus run risks and endure are foolish,
Laches, or Courage 2006
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The boys were so eager to be home again, they only threw together about five dollars for me ... when, if I hadn't been foolish,
Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922
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The connection is, of course, desirable, but I hope your anxiety to secure it will not lead you into making foolish,
Spring Days 1892
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Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the foolish,
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855
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Supposing it true, that former times are really best; this querulous reflection is foolish,
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823
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For my part, I had risen and courtsied, and now, feeling very foolish,
Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World Fanny Burney 1796
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So now the daughter beguiles the naive and bedazzles the foolish,
Erotica Romana Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790
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For my part, I had risen and courtsied, and now, feeling very foolish,
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World 1778
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Some years ago, this gentleman taking a fancy either to my person or fortune, made his addresses to me; which, being then young and foolish,
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish Jonathan Swift 1706
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