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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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If he was a fool, what were those his folly whipped into orgies of vicious mockery?
My ash bower is a kind of folly, an Aboriginal wiltja that stands at the top of my long meadow in Suffolk.
How quick we have forgotten the sacrifice demanded of those whose homes and communities that stood in the way of the inner relief folly.
And by their clinging to the anchor of a sinking ship for security, they drown in their own folly.
A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man displays folly.
Let him be a lesson of the perilous folly of incuriousness, and the value of speaking truth to power.

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