Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, th

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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The fifties — they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires… – Elizabeth Hardwick

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Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom. – Plato

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We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. – Robert E. Lee

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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. – Anatole France

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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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