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"We need the wisdom to accept the fact that this world abounds with issues we cannot solve; and we need to part ways with those people, ideas and things that are a vexation to the soul."
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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."

"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."

"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."
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"It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for him to stick to his principles that may turn the friend into an adversary."

"Having a deep sense of understanding is a huge burden for a mind that can't directly influence things."

"True heroes don't fall. They only encounter temporary setbacks as they forge ahead towards progress."

"The narrow-minded find it convenient to create stereotypes, and then try to fit everybody, everything and every situation into those stereotypes."

"Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of preconception that helped us feel safe in whatever views or assumptions we are having."

"Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man's worst selfish instincts."

"Men have the blood of their fathers and the passions of their mothers, in the same sense that women have the blood of their mothers and the passions of their fathers. We often find ourselves trapped in life when we fail to balance the two. The most unusual of men are those who are haunted by the warped blood of their fathers and the untamed passions of their mothers. They become either the legends of the legends that mankind remembers for generations or they end up as the fools of their time."

"Singers, actors or artists who touch on sorrow are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows."
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