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Erasmus
The praise of Folly

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1 Pref | head? you’ll say. The first thing was your surname of More, 2 Pref | as you are far from the thing. And that you are so, all 3 Pref | this kind, but the same thing that has been often practiced 4 Praise| it a foolish and insolent thing to praise one’s self. Be 5 Praise| counterfeit, nor do I carry one thing in my looks and another 6 Praise| the inconvenience of the thing? Or what woman is there 7 Praise| perishing and being another thing! But I restore the same 8 Praise| infected with wisdom, so hard a thing it is for a man to be happy 9 Praise| says, “Folly is the only thing that keeps youth at a stay 10 Praise| take to them a wife—a silly thing, God wot, and foolish, yet 11 Praise| teach a cow to dance,” “a thing quite against the hair.” 12 Praise| youth. Again, what greater thing do they wish in their whole 13 Praise| their folly is not the least thing that pleases; which so true 14 Praise| blunt way point out the thing as clearly as it were with 15 Praise| for it is not so much a thing of art, as the very life 16 Praise| a clown. So necessary a thing it is that everyone flatter 17 Praise| general I grant it; but this thing of warring is not part of 18 Praise| spoil all, it being the only thing that entertains the eyes 19 Praise| start up and cry, this great thing whom the world looks upon 20 Praise| should I be silent in a thing that is more true than truth 21 Praise| But tell me pray, if the thing were to be carried by most 22 Praise| be troubled with the same thing always.~And now I think 23 Praise| sayingtis a miserable thing for a man to be foolish, 24 Praise| conceive them. I’ll tell you a thing, which at first perhaps 25 Praise| pleasure; so that the same thing which, if it came from a 26 Praise| degree, if not the very thing. For what else is madness 27 Praise| box for them? A pleasant thing, I must confess, did it 28 Praise| recovery from folly; so sweet a thing it is not to be wise, that 29 Praise| of physic, and the only thing in poetry; ’tis the delight 30 Praise| society.~But ’tis a sad thing, they say, to be mistaken. 31 Praise| purchased! Forasmuch as to the thing itself a man’s whole endeavor 32 Praise| accident or a substance, a thing created or uncreated. They 33 Praise| when yet it is the only thing they should have insisted 34 Praise| new-found names that though the thing be most unjust in itself, 35 Praise| others. And yet in this only thing no men more modest, in that 36 Praise| most inhuman and economical thing, and more to be execrated, 37 Praise| whereas war is so savage a thing that it rather befits beasts 38 Praise| that they think it a mean thing, and least beseeming a bishop, 39 Praise| they are to pick the least thing out of the writings of the 40 Praise| yourselves what an excellent thing this folly is, whose very 41 Praise| again, “’Tis a pleasant thing to play the fool in the 42 Praise| entreat the soul of Scotus, a thing more bristly than either 43 Praise| thundered out the same thing, and most men wondered what 44 Praise| looked upon it as that one thing both necessary and profitable. “ 45 Praise| his own body but in the thing he loves; and by how much


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