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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."

"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."

"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."

"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."

"Wisdom is not in intelligence but in simplicity."

"Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper."
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"America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks."

"If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner."

"My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere."

"I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning."

"Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock."
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