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Evelyn Waugh

"He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich."

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"When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations."

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"Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination."

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"What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right, no one can be always right."

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"To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don't give him poem to recite; don't give him a song to sing. Just engage him in an argument and you will know it for yourself who he is."

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"Wisdom is the result of time well spent."

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"Knowing your ignorance is better than your knowledge."

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"One of the greatest discoveries you could actually discover in life is the treasure of solitude."

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"Where there are two on point of independently distinguished purposes, you will find one infinite journey whose path is blazed with the guiding light of wisdom."

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"Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves."

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"A 'biomass' man is not deeply analyzing things to draw a meaningful conclusions."

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