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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
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A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
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A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.
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All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
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All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
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As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown...
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Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
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