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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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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You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content. – 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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. – Menander

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. – Matsuo Basho

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At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. – Mason Cooley

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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. – Alexander Pope

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