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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The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. – Josh Billings

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I probably wouldnt be a songwriter if I didnt grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age thats served me well. – Ray LaMontagne

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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. – Joseph Addison

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Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. – Julia Ward Howe

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Whats different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. Its all part of the suffocating spin cycle were in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base. – John Avlon

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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Strange – is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too. – Horace

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