"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
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"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.“
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