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fol·lies

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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. Sir Thomas Browne:

    There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.

  2. Voltaire:

    We are all full of weakness and errors, let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.

  3. Molière:

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

  4. Josh Billings:

    Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

  5. Homer:

    By their own follies they perished, the fools.


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