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Though wisdom
cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without
it.
-- Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet,
Satirist
Great men are
the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows
because they are wiser.
-- Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author
The greatest
event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
-- Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author
Wise men learn
more from fools than fools from the wise.
-- Cato The Elder
BC 234-149, Roman Statesman,
Orator
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Time ripens
all things; no man is born wise.
-- Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist,
Dramatist, Poet
The greatest
scholars are not usually the wisest people.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer
1340-1400, British Poet
Wisdom we know
is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to
choose between the two.
-- John Cheever
1912-1982, American Author
Everything I
know I learned after I was thirty.
-- Georges Clemenceau
1841-1929, French Statesman
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