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53 while
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50 ever
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The praise of Folly

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1 Pref | was to sit on horseback in foolish and illiterate fables, I 2 Praise| got, even among the most foolish), yet that I am that she, 3 Praise| esteem a rush that call it a foolish and insolent thing to praise 4 Praise| praise one’s self. Be it as foolish as they would make it, so 5 Praise| What but that of the most foolish? For by what more proper 6 Praise| perhaps you’ll say they are foolish and doting. Admit it; ’tis 7 Praise| themselves in it. Let the foolish world then be packing and 8 Praise| comedies thrown on him? O foolish god, say they, and worthy 9 Praise| drunk? Now by my troth, so foolish that I myself can hardly 10 Praise| silly thing, God wot, and foolish, yet wanton and pleasant, 11 Praise| woman still, that is to say foolish, let her put on whatever 12 Praise| hope that sex is not so foolish as to take offense at this, 13 Praise| consider with himself, what foolish discourse and odd gambols 14 Praise| say it that is not more foolish than Folly. And yet, if 15 Praise| everywhere. For what is more foolish than for a man to study 16 Praise| enterprises? And yet what more foolish than to undertake it for 17 Praise| both which ruled their foolish multitudes with fabulous 18 Praise| philosophers. For what is more foolish, say they, than for a suppliant 19 Praise| public ceremonies; most foolish things, and such as one 20 Praise| and travail, have the most foolish of men thought to purchase 21 Praise| For as nothing is more foolish than preposterous wisdom, 22 Praise| for company. But this is foolish, you’ll say; nor shall I 23 Praise| often invoke them upon every foolish occasion. Be present then 24 Praise| things are laughed at as foolish, as indeed they are; yet 25 Praise| miserable thing for a man to be foolish, to err, mistake, and know 26 Praise| at first perhaps may seem foolish and absurd, yet nothing 27 Praise| concerning us, “A fool speaks foolish things.” For whatever a 28 Praise| few years in feeding their foolish fancies.~And, in my opinion, 29 Praise| college; and yet ’tis a foolish and ridiculous sight to 30 Praise| they that have gotten a foolish but pleasant persuasion 31 Praise| score. But what is more foolish than those, or rather more 32 Praise| trick. And these are so foolish that I am half ashamed of 33 Praise| father’s land than their foolish opinions; but chiefly players, 34 Praise| like lettuce; nay, the more foolish anything is, the more ’tis 35 Praise| And therefore if the more foolish a man is, the more he pleases 36 Praise| no men. Nor am I yet so foolish as to require statues or 37 Praise| over-caught. But the most foolish and basest of all others 38 Praise| together.~But let me be most foolish myself, and one whom Democritus 39 Praise| boysheads nothing but foolish toys, yet, you good gods! 40 Praise| about that to their boysfoolish mothers and dolt-headed 41 Praise| they give up and down their foolish insipid verses, and there 42 Praise| laugh at these things as foolish, as indeed they are. Who 43 Praise| their stomachs at those foolish subtleties of the others. 44 Praise| invention, or command them whose foolish traditions they have preferred 45 Praise| suppositions, and those so weak and foolish that they are below pedantry. 46 Praise| here they bring in some foolish insipid fable out of Speculum 47 Praise| counter-scuffle between foolish kings and foolish people? 48 Praise| between foolish kings and foolish people? Besides, how absolute 49 Praise| himself that he is more foolish than any man. Nor did Paul, 50 Praise| certainly the second. O most foolish instance, they cry, and 51 Praise| said, “God hath chosen the foolish things of this world,” as 52 Praise| there is not anything more foolish, if we may believe that


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