Quote by Marcel Proust
We dont receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a j

We dont receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. – Marcel Proust

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Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient? – Marcel Proust

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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. – Marcel Proust

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. – William Wordsworth

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Wisdom is digested experience… – Janesville Daily Gazette (Janesville, Wisconsin), 1917 March 29th

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