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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

Other quotes by Elizabeth Hardwick

Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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Welfare
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Elizabeth Hardwick
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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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teacher
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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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Twentieth Century
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Elizabeth Hardwick
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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains. – Francis Quarles

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. – Rabindranath Tagore

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The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss. – Edward Young

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Wisdom

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. – e. e. cummings

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No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers. – Mike Huckabee

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A smile confuses an approaching frown. – Author Unknown

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My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. – John le Carre

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A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned. – Arabic Proverb

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