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1. Albert, however, hoped to indemnify himself for all these slights and indifferences during the Carnival, knowing full well that among the different states and kingdoms in which this festivity is celebrated, Rome is the spot where even the wisest and gravest throw off the usual rigidity of their lives, and deign to mingle in the follies of this time of liberty and relaxation.
2. When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying.
3. The follies and disloyalty committed in his youth were to be expiated by a long and painful penance, ere he could be restored to the full enjoyment of the confidence of his ancient people and without confidence there could be no authority in an Indian tribe.
4. He went through all our vices and follies, and discovered many which I had never mentioned to him, by only supposing what qualities a yahoo of their country, with a small proportion of reason, might be capable of exerting and concluded, with too much probability, how vile, as well as miserable such a creature must be.
5. It appeared to me to be a thing impossible and contrary to all precedent that so good a knight should have been without some sage to undertake the task of writing his marvellous achievements a thing that was never wanting to any of those knights-errant who, they say, went after adventures for every one of them had one or two sages as if made on purpose, who not only recorded their deeds but described their most trifling thoughts and follies, however secret they might be and such a good knight could not have been so unfortunate as not to have what Platir and others like him had in abundance.
6. Now that I have seen adventures and the follies of princes, I envy the young child that I was.
7. Unlucky wretch that I am, what an end my follies and fancies have come to!
8. And if it be found that these nurses ever presume to entertain the girls with frightful or foolish stories, or the common follies practiced by chambermaids among us, they are publicly whipped thrice about the city, imprisoned for a year, and banished for life to the most desolate part of the country.
9. My reconcilement to the yahoo kind in general might not be so difficult, if they would be content with those vices and follies only, which nature has entitled them to.
10. The shortest follies are best, my dear Caderousse.