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Quote by Evelyn Waugh
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation t

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. – Evelyn Waugh

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If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe… – Evelyn Waugh

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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. – Evelyn Waugh

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A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. – Lord John Russell

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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. – Aristotle

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Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives – which is true – but theres also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival. – Henning Mankell

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Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesnt all have to be by tomorrow! – William Eardley IV

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