Sentences with phrase «book of human folly»
Meanwhile, the wry and acerbic Nathan has undertaken something he calls The Book of Human Folly, in which he proposes «to set down in the simplest, clearest language possible an account of every blunder, every pratfall, every embarrassment, every idiocy, every foible, and every inane act I had committed during my long and checkered career as a man.»
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Secrets, Stories and Scandals of Ten Welsh Follies contains the stories behind ten weird and wonderful Welsh buildings.If you enjoy unusual tales, quirky human history and delight in the ridiculous and the vain you will enjoy this book.
Signs of status in fashion have always evolved; it's about time that wearing dead animals for the sake of glamour was relegated to the history books under the vast «human folly» section.
Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers has some interesting ideas about this in his book «Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self - Deception in Human Life».