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• The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

  William Shakespeare

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• Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

  Francis Quarles

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  The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

  Maya Angelou

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  To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man.

  Aristotle

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• A word to the wise ain’t necessary – it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.

  Bill Cosby

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• The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need

  Hyeonseo Lee

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• It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

  Brigham Young

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• Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

  Pearl S. Buck

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• Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

  Frederick Pollock

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• Wisdom is knowing when you can’t be wise.

  Paul Engle

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• Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

  Bertolt Brecht

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• Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

  Umberto Eco

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• A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

  Sophocles

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• Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

  Sophocles

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• It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

  Sun Tzu

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• It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

  Fannie Hurst

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  Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

  Plato

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• Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

  Demetri Martin

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• It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

  Nelson Mandela

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  Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

  Ram Dass

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