But those policies were folly then, and they are surely folly now.

但是，那些政策在当时来说是愚蠢的，现在也还是愚蠢的。

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The wealth of the wise is their crown, but the folly of fools yields folly.

智慧人的财，为自己的冠冕；愚妄人的愚昧，终是愚昧。

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The concern of the folly in the human nature and behavior and its harm to the society is the basis that folly literature comes into being and exists.

关注人类本性和行为的愚蠢及其对自身和社会造成的危害是愚人文学产生和存在的基础。

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It's folly to think that we have about us protective spirits who might actually keep us from harm.

认为真的有神灵在周围,庇佑我们不受伤害是愚蠢的。

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I wanted him to consider the folly of his decision.

我想让他再考虑下他荒唐的决定。

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Charlie you often complain that accountants are the root of much evil and also even more folly.

查理，你经常讲到会计是当今,糟糕经济的根源。

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In the earlier parts of the book Swift has shown where man's folly and scoundrelism lead him: but take away the folly and the scoundrelism, and all you are left with, apparently, is a tepid sort of existence, hardly worth leading.

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"I think that to suggest that God might intervene to protect us from the corporate folly of our practices is as unchristian and unbiblical as to suggest that he protects us from the results of our individual folly or sin, " he said.

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Understanding is in short supply on all sides, and it keeps getting clouded by the folly of youth, the parallel folly of age Takashi says at several points that everything will work out, but it won't and by a loneliness that amounts to solitary confinement.

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