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Quote by William Penn
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance i

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. – William Penn

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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. – William Penn

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Sweetest Day
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William Penn
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A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. – William Penn

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Friendship
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He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his fathers wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his fathers care. – William Penn

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Wisdom
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My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall – that is my strength, my only strength. – Antonio Gramsci

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Knowledge

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. – Hippocrates

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Knowledge

Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. – Henry Miller

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Knowledge

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. – Dante Alighieri

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Knowledge

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[Thinking is] what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James

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Screenplays I didnt really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write. – Kazuo Ishiguro

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My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and theres a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl. – Sarah Zettel

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