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Meanings of human folly in English

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Usage of human folly in English
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Could human folly frame a set of lies more gross and palpable?
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 / Volu...
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A large fraction of what passes for human folly is failure of communication.
The Tyranny Of Words
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But will knowing this be enough to overcome human folly?
Beyond The Frontier: Guardian
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The fascination of the play lies in seeing divine anger exacerbated by human folly.
The Guardian
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Oh how much recent human folly has been committed in connection with that misused word!
The Guardian
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There is a fate which fights against it; its ministers are human folly and passion.
Dawn
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Go, go; human folly is not needed to fill up the great design of God.
The Prairie
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But it is the old tale of human folly.
The Lost Hunter / A Tale of Early Times
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I have stopped laughing at human folly, I flee it and try to forget it.
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
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A tavern is the best picture of human folly, nature wearing no garb of hypocrisy.
Shakspere, Personal Recollections
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I find in them a never-ending panorama which illustrates my theme, the problem of human folly.
Shandygaff / A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life &...
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This precious specimen of human folly has been preserved by Horst, in his "Zauberbibliothek."
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2
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I've seen more trouble come from long engagements than from any other form of human folly.
Night and Day
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And yet here, as in other parts of the world, the resources of human folly are illimitable.
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2
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But that is in your favor, for I am sufficiently human to make allowance for human folly.
Opening a Chestnut Burr
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Everything in this world changed-excepthuman folly.
The Ragged Edge
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