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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than

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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As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values. – Edward Levi

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Wise care keeps what it has gained. – Danish proverb

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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault

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After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. – Shmuel Y. Agnon

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In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. – Stefan Zweig

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