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Quote by Knut Hamsun
However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so dist

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science. – Knut Hamsun

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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. – Knut Hamsun

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Age
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I have had much to learn from Swedens poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation. – Knut Hamsun

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Poetry
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There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil ones coffee and fill ones pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it. – Knut Hamsun

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alone
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Other Quotes from
Wisdom
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. – Felix Frankfurter

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Wisdom

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness. – Jane Smiley

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Wisdom

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. – Honore de Balzac

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Wisdom

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order. – Johan Huizinga

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Wisdom

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