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Quote by Samuel Smiles
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individ

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. – Samuel Smiles

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. – Samuel Smiles

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Experience
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The wise man… if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear. – Samuel Smiles

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved. – Samuel Smiles

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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. – George Eliot

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Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth. – Mikhail Gorbachev

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It is good even for old men to learn wisdom. – Aeschylus

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You know, its sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections dont make money. – Chad Harbach

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