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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not pleas

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. – Sophocles

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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. – Joseph Addison

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After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. – Shmuel Y. Agnon

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