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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before. – James Truslow Adams

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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. – Anthony Trollope

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To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. – Wilson Mizner

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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. – John Henry Newman

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If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, youre not going to want to keep it to yourself. Youre going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it. – will.i.am

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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every mans judgment. – Francis Bacon

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