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- If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
- Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
- If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- I don't think much of a man who is not wiser than he was yesterday.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
- Worry is interest paid on trouble before is falls due.
- William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
- Speech is civilization itself... It is silence which isolates.
- Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
- Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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