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Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wi

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. – Elizabeth Gaskell

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My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling. – Elizabeth Gaskell

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Assassination
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Elizabeth Gaskell
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He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. – James Gibbons Huneker

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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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Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that youre hopefully gaining wisdom and youre starting to watch things with a better overview. – Sheryl Crow

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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. – John Henry Newman

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