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  1. Richard Curtis _ Blackadder the Third: The

    I have a cunning plan.
    book-quoteoverconfidencefolly

  2. Roger Zelazny _ Creatures of Light and

    It would be an act of wisdom to depart immediately… but wisdom is itself the product of knowledge; and knowledge, unfortunately, is generally the product of foolish doings. So, to add to my own knowledge and to enhance my wisdom I shall remain another day, to see what occurs.
    book-quoteknowledgewisdomrisk

  3. Dan Simmons _ The Terror

    Thomas Blanky wondered if he had been an instrument of evil - or perhaps just of folly - when he had used his more than three decades of ice-master skills to get 126 men the impossible 250 miles through ice to this place where all they could do was die
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  4. Ian Fleming _ Moonraker

    Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.
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  5. Edith Wharton _ The Age of Innocence

    Folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom.
    book-quotewisdomfolly

  6. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
    book-quoteloveromancevanity

  7. James Lee Burke _ Jolie Blon's Bounce

    ...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.
    book-quoteheavengiftsfolly

  8. Arundhati Roy _ The Cost of Living

    It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.
    book-quotetruthdangerfear
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