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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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We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television. ↗

— Ernie Wise

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Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none. ↗

— 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 the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time. ↗

— 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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My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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