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• Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered.
  -- Old Testament -- Wisdom of Solomon ii, 8...
• Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.
• Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom
  and with all thy getting get understanding. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs iv, 7...
• Our time is a very shadow that passeth away. -- Old Testament -- Wisdom of Solomon ii, 5
• The price of wisdom is above rubies. -- Old Testament -- Job xxviii, 18
• Wisdom is better than rubies. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs viii, 11
• Wisdom shall die with you. -- Old Testament -- Job xii, 2
• Among the many handicaps of old age which must be lived with is wisdom.
• When I was born I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
  -- Old Testament -- Wisdom of Solomon vii, 3...