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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.
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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
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Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.
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Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
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Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
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With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.
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With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. ''Be bold!'' and everywhere - ''Be bold; Be not too bold!'' Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
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