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"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."
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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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"He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent."

"I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear."

"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."

"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant."
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