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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre peo

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 greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove ones self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? – Norman Douglas

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We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. – Dora Russell

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it. – Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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