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Wisdom Quotes

"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."

"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."

"Libraries have always seemed to me like the richest places in the world"

"To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity."

"Intelligence without principle is luck, not skill"

"There is a wisdom that is woe but there is a woe that is madness"

"Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one."

"Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell "

"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision"

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday"

"Expect poison from the standing water "

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise"

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