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title: "4 Wise Books Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/czeslaw-milosz/there-was-a-time-when-only-wise-books-were-read-helping-us-to-bear/)

[Czeslaw Milosz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/czeslaw-milosz/)

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> [The wise are above books.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-daniel/the-wise-are-above-books/)

[Samuel Daniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-daniel/)

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> [If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zora-neale-hurston/if-writers-were-too-wise-perhaps-no-books-would-get-written-at-all-it/)

[Zora Neale Hurston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zora-neale-hurston/)

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> [There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-canfield/there-are-essentially-two-things-that-will-make-you-wise-the-books/)

[Jack Canfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-canfield/)

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