"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
-Francis Bacon
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"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.“
-Francis Bacon
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"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."
-Francis Bacon
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"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."
-Francis Bacon
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"Wise men make more opportunities than they find."
-Francis Bacon
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"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."
-Francis Bacon
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"It is impossible to love and to be wise."
-Francis Bacon
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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."
-Lord John Russell
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"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."
-Francis Hutcheson
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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."
-Nina Totenberg
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"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."
-John Bigelow
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