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  1. folliesnoun

    a revue with elaborate costuming

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  1. List of paraphrases for "follies":

    folies, folly

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  1. Molière:

    Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

  2. Edward Gibbon:

    History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

  3. H.L. Mencken:

    The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

  4. Jerome K. Jerome:

    It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

  5. Philip Howard:

    Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.


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