Quote by William Dunbar
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be su

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. – William Dunbar

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Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair. – William Dunbar

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Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way. – George Crabbe

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Wisdom is not what you know but how quickly you adjust when the opposite proves true. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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