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" He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. "

Mary Wilson Little

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" Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. "

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" I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. "

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" I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. "

" I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain. "

" Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. "

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" Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. "

" If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. "

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" Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way. "

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