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How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

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