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"Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness."
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"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."
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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."
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"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
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"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."
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"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."
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"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."
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"Knowledge makes you powerful and proud wisdom makes you simple and humble."
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"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."
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"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."
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"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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"A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent."
Talent

"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy."
Illusion

"Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium."
Society

"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature."
Family

"Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action."
Faith

"The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."
Fear

"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."
Work

"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."
Books

"The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven."
Life

"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once."
Art
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