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"Let us now explore the power of praise, the folly of flattery, and how you can use these potent tools effectively "

- Leil Lowndes, How to Talk to Anyone

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"Eat not thy dam, but laugh and sport with me

At strangers' follies with a merry glee."

- John Marston, "Satire IV: Reactio"

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"For when my ears received a fearful sound

That he was sick, I went, and there I found

Him laid of love, and newly brought to bed

Of monstrous folly and frantic head."

- John Marston, "Satire III: Quaedom et sunt, et videntor"

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"Someone: man or woman, because Andrea Varón did not hesitate over such details when it came to the follies of love."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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"But a secure and prosperous global society could afford such follies and indeed needed them for their novelty and entertainment " - Arthur C. Clarke, "A Meeting with Medusa"

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"The entire human race, with its hopes and fears, its triumph and follies might be no more than an incident in the history of the world." - Arthur C. Clarke, "Death and the Senator"

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"This is folly, Leon told himself." - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Songs of Distant Earth"

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"Was there any limit to the follies of mankind?" - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"

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"That mountain will probably be called Wilson's Folly from now on." - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Sentinel"

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"It is folly to think of avoiding an invisible enemy by any amount of creeping and skulking." - C.S. Lewis, Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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"But his death, and his exile, were also a means of resistance to the impoverished pulping process of post-modernity, just as the Karl-Marx-Hof was an act of resistance to Dolfuss's guns, and also to the temptation to think that resistance itself was folly." - Claudio Magris, Danube

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"Altdorfer helps us to understand Mauthausen, and his savage colours also cry out against the ferocious folly of the concentration camps." - Claudio Magris, Danube

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"He cries out with the broken voice of mangled creatures, he proclaims the contemptibility and the folly of evil." - Claudio Magris, Danube

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"An idea which evolves in a single mind, without the counterbalance of debate, can nonetheless avoid the pitfalls of idiosyncrasy and folly." - Michel Houellebecq, Atomised

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"...he tips over into bigotry and folly."

-Salman Rushdie, "Fiji"

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"...turning Elián simultaneously into a symbol of national pride and the folly of emigration to the USA..."

-Salman Rushdie, "Elián González"

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"...then such intransigence looks like a greater folly than excessive 'willingness.'"

-Salman Rushdie, "Northern Ireland"