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  • Sholem Aleichem Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
    Sholem Aleichem
    Yiddish author and playwright (1859 - 1916)
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  • Jonathan Swift A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Helen Rowland A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Confucius A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Joseph Addison One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • John Patrick Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
    The Teahouse of the August Moon act I, scene i, p. 6
    John Patrick
    English playwright and screenwriter (1905 - 1995)
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  • Mahfouz Naguib You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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  • Winston Churchill All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Abraham Lincoln And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Aldous Huxley Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
    Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau
    French revolutionary and writer (1749 - 1791)
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  • Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.
    Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau
    French revolutionary and writer (1749 - 1791)
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  • Cato the Elder Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • John Abbott ''How do you know so much about everything?'' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ''By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.
    John Abbott
    Canadian lawyer and politician (1821 - 1893)
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  • Bruce Lee A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Mark Twain A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Epictetus A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Michel Eyquem de Montaigne A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
    Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Alcuin of York At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
    Alcuin of York
    English scholar, clergyman and poet
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  • Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.
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