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You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
Books - Reading
Jim Critchfield

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.
Wisdom
Danish Proverb

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Wise men do not quarrel with each other.
Quarrels
Danish Proverb

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He that is rich is wise.
Wealth
Daniel Depoe

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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Quotations
Isaac Disraeli

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
Fools and Foolishness
Isaac Disraeli

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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Lies and Lying
Norman Douglas

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Love
John Dryden

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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Inflation
William J. Durant

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Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
Alienation
Bob Dylan

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That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
Wives
George Eliot

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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
Rebellion
T. S. Eliot

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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
Ideas
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
Wisdom
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Life is a festival only to the wise.
Wisdom
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
Sorrow
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
Law and Lawyers
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
Danger
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The weakest spot in any person is where they think themselves to be the wisest.
Weakness
G. Emmons

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
Fools and Foolishness
English Proverb

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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Pleasure
Epictetus

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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
Patience
Epictetus

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Wisdom
Euripides

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Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
Influence
Euripides

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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Solitude
Euripides

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun