"Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got."
-Josh Billings
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"Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe."
-Josh Billings
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"The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease."
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"Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread."
-Josh Billings
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"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
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"There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying."
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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."
-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."
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"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."
-John Bigelow
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