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Letter "W" » wisest
«Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.»
Author: Charles W. Eliot
(University President)
| About:
Books,
Friendship,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
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«In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.»
«Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men»
Author: Theodore Reik
| About:
Men and Women,
Relationships
| Keywords:
foolish, foolish woman, fools, themselves, wise, wisest, women
«A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men»
«A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.»
«Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.»
«Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.»
«??when the whole group is together, each brining out all that is best, wisest, or funniest in all the others. Those are the golden sessions?when the whole world, and something beyond the world, opens itself to our minds as we talk; and no one has any claim on or any responsibility for another, but all are freedmen and equals as if we had first met an hour ago, while at the same time an Affection mellowed by the years enfolds us. Life- natural life- has no better gift to give.?»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
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«Among mortals second thoughts are wisest»
«Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years.... The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
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