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What is a folly?

What is a folly? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Foolishness.
  2. Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.
  3. A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.
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A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man displays folly.
To kill a swan is still considered the height of folly and many used to believe that swans were in fact the reincarnation of human souls!
You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
How quick we have forgotten the sacrifice demanded of those whose homes and communities that stood in the way of the inner relief folly.
Isn't to gamble and to lose itself a valuable demonstration of the absolute folly of a belief in untrammelled freedom?
Time was when the big man, a steamfitter by trade, would have thought it mad folly to come to Ed Massey's for anything but a haircut.

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