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Quotation from The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
“Be it as foolish as they would make it, so they confess it proper: and what can be more than that Folly be her own trumpet”
The Praise of Folly, Opening of the oration, trans. John Wilson (1668)
Folly justifies praising herself, setting up the paradoxical encomium in which a worthless subject is lavishly honoured.
Citation: "Be it as foolish as they would make it, so they confess it proper: and what can be more than that Folly be her own trumpet" — Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly, Opening of the oration, trans. John Wilson (1668). (id erasmus-praise-of-folly-q1)
