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Just because your voice reaches halfway around th

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Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn somethi

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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot

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A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true

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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

The past is never there when you try to go back.&

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The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess.

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper t

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I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been

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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred ye

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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

War is a game which were their subjects wise, kin

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War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings would not play at.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mi

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An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ou

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It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling other

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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

No one who achieves success does so without ackno

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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on t

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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

This is a work of fiction. All the characte

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This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a

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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough t

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It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

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Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island

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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

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