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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? - Norman Dougl

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? – Norman Douglas

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. – Norman Douglas

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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. – Norman Douglas

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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. – Khalil Gibran

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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. – Arthur Helps

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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. – Josh Billings

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