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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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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. – Marcel Proust

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Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. – Marcel Proust

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Habits
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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. – Wilhelm von Humboldt

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Im not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there its like relaxing into – and an acceptance of – things. – Tina Turner

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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. – James Madison

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But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end. – John Jewel

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By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn. – Proverb

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But lo! men have become the tools of their tools. – Henry David Thoreau

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It also allows you to look as though youre not particularly from the present, future or past, either. – Doug Coupland

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Ive always been a big fan of time travel, and Im very into the notion that some day well be able to do it. Beam me up! – Scott Bakula

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