"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
-Charles Spurgeon
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"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.“
-Charles Spurgeon
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