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Quote by George Eliot
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. - Ge

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. – George Eliot

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Sympathetic people often dont communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. – George Eliot

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Sympathy
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George Eliot
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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change –only to give stability to one beautiful moment. – George Eliot

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Portraits
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George Eliot
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Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom. – Plato

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Wisdom

The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions. – John A. Simone, Sr.

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Wisdom

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, dont adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. – Confucius

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Wisdom

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Wisdom

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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish

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I like wearing my wedding ring, its nice. – Jerry OConnell

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wedding

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world. – Lester B. Pearson

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Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. – Gunther Grass

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Despair