"Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people."
-John Selden
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"No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man.“
-John Selden
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"No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man."
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"Old friends are best."
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"How sweet it is!"
-Jackie Gleason
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"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."
-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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"It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week."
-Laurence J. Peter
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"Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity."
-Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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"A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."
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"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."
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"This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will."
-Stanford Moore
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"I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom."
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"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."
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