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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
― Florence Nightingale
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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 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 never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
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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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Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.
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With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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With a regular venture fund, you raise, let's say, a billion dollars, and then over the next three or four years, you've got to invest that money; otherwise, the people who invested with you will say, 'What are you doing? You're just collecting fees on our money.'
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With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.
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