Fooleries

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Foolery \Fool"er*y\, n.; pl. {Fooleries}.
     1. The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; foolish
        behavior; absurdity.
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              Folly in fools bears not so strong a note,


              As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote. --Shak.
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     2. An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something
        absurd or nonsensical.
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              That Pythagoras, Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any
              of these fooleries, it can not be suspected. --Sir
                                                    W. Raleigh.
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