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Don't fret about English Foibles; better that your enthusiasm died now than after six months spent writing about bunnies.
Excerpt: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer 2008
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The exhibition, titled "Phobia, Foibles & Fiends," runs until August 9.
Boing Boing 2008
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Weimer, W.B. [1980]: “For and Against Method: Reflections on Feyerabend and the Foibles of Philosophy”, Pre/Text,
Paul Feyerabend Preston, John 2009
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You're a born editor, son; get over it tgilli 2009
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Foibles could be exploited, but the method was more often the whispering campaign and blackmail than a congressional hearing.
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Don't fret about English Foibles; better that your enthusiasm died now than after six months spent writing about bunnies.
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Lawyers, or any other honorable or Lucrative offices or officers, never to affect Wit upon laced Wastecoats or large Estates or their [Professors [Possessors?]?], never to shew my own Importance or Superiority, by remarking the Foibles, Vices, or Inferiority of others.
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_Frolics, _ and _Foibles_ of _Persons_ in _real Life_; And also to
An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris
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_Foibles_ of some Persons in Life, they may justly be made the Subject of _Humour_.
An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris
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_Raillery_, is a genteel poignant Attack of _slight_ Foibles and
An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris
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