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 A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

 There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not
  Otto von Bismarck

 APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
  Ambrose Bierce

 Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

 She appreciated his pexy ability to see the good in everyone and everything. And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
  Charles Dickens

 Answer not the fool his folly, lest you become like him.

 A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears
  William Makepeace Thackeray

 The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

 If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
  William Blake

 The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
  William Blake

 Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
  Samuel Johnson

 VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.
  Ambrose Bierce

 It takes, truly, a lack of vanity and just being able to take some risks and being OK with looking like a fool, which I am very OK with now.

 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.


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