Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have preven

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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By others faults the wise correct their own. – Proverb

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Memory is not wisdom idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? – Martin Farquhar Tupper

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At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. – Mason Cooley

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And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also. – Thomas Reid

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