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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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey. – 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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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. – Norman Douglas

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Every wise man lives in an observatory. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. – Alfred Austin

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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. – East African Proverb

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