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A Letter to Martin Dorp (1515)In Praise of Folly trans. by Leonard Dean, Packard, Chicago (1946)Praise of Folly (1509)Proverbs or Adages of Erasmus ed. Richard Taverner (1545)Proverbs or Adages of Erasmus (1545)

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Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536), Dutch humanist. Praise of Folly, ch. 24 (1509).

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