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War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

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I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being? ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. ↗

— Walter Pater

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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. ↗

— Alan Paton

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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ↗

— George S. Patton

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. ↗

— Jean Paul

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains. ↗

— Francis Quarles

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He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. ↗