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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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Theres lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they havent got time to enjoy it. – Josh Billings

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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. – Josh Billings

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The left has come to regard common sense – the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community – as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. – Christopher Lasch

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I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that its more interesting to have an album – or, indeed, an individual song – which has variety rather than homogeneity. – Peter Hammill

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I dont think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda. – Bennie Thompson

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You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme thats partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves – the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life. – Dorothy Dunnett

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My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. – Helen Gurley Brown

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Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch. – G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, “The Glory of Grey”

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