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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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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy. – George Eliot

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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. – George Eliot

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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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A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. – Ezra Stiles

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Wisdom begins in wonder. – Socrates

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The wisdom of the crowds is the most ridiculous statement Ive heard in my life. Crowds are dumb. – Drew Curtis

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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. – Edmund Burke

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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. – Wallace Stevens

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Ignorance is God’s prison. Knowing is God’s palace. – Rumi

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Sometimes I wonder — if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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