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Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meani

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning… and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. – Bergen Evans

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I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence. – James Boswell, “The Hypochondriack,” No.XXII, 1779

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