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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, inf

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. – Cyril Connolly

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The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. – Cyril Connolly

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We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. – Cyril Connolly

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I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. – John Buchan

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This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdoms school. – Thomas Dekker

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Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. – Nick Clooney

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The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that wont be true in the future. – Roone Arledge

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What I learned in jail is that I cant change. I cant live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made. – Tupac Shakur

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Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters. – Anita Diament

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