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Quote by Jose Bergamin
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the princip

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. – Jose Bergamin

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A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. – Jose Bergamin

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As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values. – Edward Levi

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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. – George William Curtis

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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. – James A. Garfield

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It is good even for old men to learn wisdom. – Aeschylus

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