Sentence examples for foolish thoughts from inspiring English sources

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Such foolish thoughts as a man may have in secret.

In his third verse he asked his unknowable friend in the far future: Have you wine and music still, And statues and a bright-eyed love, And foolish thoughts of good and ill.

So it was that "the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts" and to succumb to such thoughts in the political realm.

It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

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But I had to smile at such a foolish thought — indeed, how could I ever know?

But perceptions matter and Help to Buy may be encouraging the foolish thought among stretched borrowers that London houses are always a one-way bet.

To answer yes to those questions would seem foolish, inspiring thoughts about magic.

Foolish, foolish idea.

Breathing in the fish market perfume, a visitor thinks to himself that he truly knows New York and then feels truly foolish for the thought.

In an interview with Fox News in December, Trump criticized the Obama administration for "fighting a very politically correct war" against Islamic State, and sadly arrived at this foolish and ugly thought: "You have to take out their families".

As the British novelist and journalist George Orwell explained in his 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language," our language "becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish".

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