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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
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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.
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A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
The Teahouse of the August Moon act I, scene i, p. 6 -
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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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
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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.
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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.
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''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.
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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
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A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
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Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom - one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
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