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Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. - Laurence Sterne

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. – Laurence Sterne

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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a mans stature as to his happiness. – Laurence Sterne

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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. – Edmund Burke

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Cleverness is not wisdom. – Euripides

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Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. – Riccardo Muti

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