"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."
-Benjamin Franklin
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"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.“
-Benjamin Franklin
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"The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands."
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"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow."
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
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"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."
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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."
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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."
-Francis Hutcheson
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-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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