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silliness

Noun

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The quality or state of being silly.

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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. Ludwig Wittgenstein

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. Bertrand Russell

The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things. John Ruskin

It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician. William Shakespeare

He had developed in the most wonderful way the distinctive silliness of man without losing one jot of the natural folly of a monkey. H. G. Wells

We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so it's not about appearances. It's about effectiveness. Katherine Harris

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