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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. Firdausi:

    Watch over thy expenditure, for he who through vain glory spendeth uselessly what he hath on empty follies, will receive neither return nor praise from anyone.

  2. Feltham:

    It is our follies that make our lives uncomfortable. Our errors of opinion, our cowardly fear of the world?s worthless censure, and our eagerness after unnecessary gold have hampered the way of virtue, and made it far more difficult than, in itself, it is.

  3. 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.

  4. Helen Rowland:

    The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

  5. 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.


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