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The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but read more
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
Count your age with friends but not with years.
Count your age with friends but not with years.
Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.
Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.
To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
