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I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

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A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

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You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

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As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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