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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
George Herbert
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson
For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.
Thomas Sydenham
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I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.


Michael Reed
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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.


William Blake
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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher
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That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.


George Eliot
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.


Leonardo da Vinci
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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.


Aneurin Bevan
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'


Don Marquis
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This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.
Omar Sharif
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My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.
James Tobin
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You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.
Hal Holbrook
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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.


William Penn
Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.
Louis Farrakhan
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Thomas Hobbes
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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.


Francis Bacon
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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.


David Hume
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I won't let anybody get away with anything just because he is little.


Margaret Wise Brown
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