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Letter "W" » Wise Men
«Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?»
Author: Natalie Clifford Barney
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.»
Author: R. I. Fitzhenry
| Keywords:
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«The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.»
Author: Jay Leno
(Comedian, Host)
| Keywords:
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«Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good»
«To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
common people, People Express, Wise Men
«When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods»
«When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
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«Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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Men
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«Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.»
Author: Napoleon Hill
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Men
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«The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
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