Fonts make me grumpy.

I have done extensive research on fonts but have not found a utility that will manage them without also doing things I did not ask for. I'd like to use Apple's FontBook. Ok so launch it. Now, I want it to become aware of all of my fonts. I have about 50,000 of them. These are stored in a folder of their own at root level on my hard disk, "Fonts".
In Library/Fonts there are 256 fonts installed. Fair enough.The folder ~/Library/Fonts is empty. (Of course, I have not touched anything in System/Library/Fonts.)
After launching FontBook, I make sure I've selected "All fonts" in the left-hand "Collection" column. Then I go to File/Add fonts and select the items in my "Fonts" folder at the root level. All I want is for Fontbook to catalog them.
Instead, it looks at them and then installs all 50,000 of them in my ~/Library/Fonts folder. Grrrr!
I want to be able to flick through FontBook and choose a collection of fonts that I want installed, for use every time. What could be simpler? Surely a common request. But...it can't be done! FontBook is determined to install every font I have.
If only I could get them all to appear in "All Fonts" I could then, later, drag them to "Computer" or "User" to install them. But, to repeat, FontBook is determined to install all of them rather than just becoming aware of them and cataloging them so I can see what they look like.
FontBook also opens a separate window to inform me that some fonts it has just become aware of are "dangerous" and should not be used. So why doesn't it give me a button to delete them?
FontAgent Pro is a whole order of magnitude worse.

A third party font manager and that many installed fonts..
Try troubleshooting duplicate or corrupted fonts.
Font problems and management in OS X | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews

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