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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. – George MacDonald

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To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly. – Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. – Zen 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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When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed. – Paul Klee

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The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. – Arthur Balfour

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I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, theyre going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much. – Janet Evanovich

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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. – Plato

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