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 is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. – Josh Billings

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Charm
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Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since. – Josh Billings

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Angels
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I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine. – Josh Billings

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Advice
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Wisdom
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All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. – Johann Georg Hamann

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Around 93, 94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years. – Marc Andreessen

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Wisdom

This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom – the fear of God. – Ray Comfort

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Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. – Theodore Isaac Rubin

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The parent knows instinctively that if theyre working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education. – John Engler

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Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. – Oliver Herford

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Art

I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And its like, she didnt care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot. – Britney Spears

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If I have enough ego to say Im a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work. – Peter Fonda

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