In Praise of Folly

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What Wikipedia says

In Praise of Folly, also translated as The Praise of Folly (Latin: Stultitiae Laus or Moriae Encomium), is an oration written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in June 1511.

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Image: Hans Holbein the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.