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A Wise Man Poor Is Like A Sacred Book That 's Never Read,-- To Himself He Lives, And To All Else Seems Dead.
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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.
-- Thomas Dekker (1572-1632)
-- Old Fortunatus
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he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so...
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act v, Sc. 1...
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
-- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxxviii, Of Solitude...
He that never thinks can never be wise. JOHNSON
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I believe in God and Senator Dodd And keeping old Castro down....
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own.
He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a teacher. -- Ben Johnso...
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.