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• When a man gets a place in the sun, others are put in denser shade. -- Walden Two
• Wisdom is knowing when you cannot be wise.
• When the fight begins within himself, A man 's worth something.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Men and Women, Bishop Blougram's Apology...
• A wise man's question contains half the answer. -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
• A wise man depends on his friends for information and on himself for decisions.
• There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself. -- William Shakespeare
• A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that 's never read,-- To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead.
  This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school....
• Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. -- Edward Abbey