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“He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.”

Mary Wilson Little · Wisdom

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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

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As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

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This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

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Henry David Thoreau

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

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