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Quote by Wallace Stegner
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount no

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. – Wallace Stegner

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If I dont have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. – Leo Buscaglia

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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. – Josh Billings

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Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth. – Larry Merchant

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Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. – Diogenes

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I suppose theres a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And its the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. – George Will

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