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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.