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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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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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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Its received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly. – Julie Burchill

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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