By a happy fatality, the greater part of mankind, being unable to get wisdom, enjoy instead a kind of folly that is next door to it.
— Erasmus Early Modern

Humanist scholar

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In Praise of Folly

Date / Period

1511

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Humorous

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/9318/9318-h/9318-h.htm

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