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Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. – John Denham

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Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. – John Denham

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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. – Chinese Proverb

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. – John Barrymore

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Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. – Christopher Reeve

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He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. – Mary Wilson Little

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