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Quote by Josh Billings
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere,

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. – Josh Billings

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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they cant tell the truth without lying. – Josh Billings

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Truth
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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. – Josh Billings

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God
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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. – Josh Billings

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Perfection
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Other Quotes from
Wisdom
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Wisdom

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, dont adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. – Confucius

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Wisdom

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. – Alan Paton

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Wisdom

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom. – Rush Limbaugh

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Wisdom

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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. – Horace Mann

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Teachers

Failure is an event, never a person. – William D. Brown, Welcome Stress!

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I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. – John Barrymore

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Food

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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strength