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Wisdom Quotes by Joseph Joubert
- Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
- Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
- Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
- A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
- I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and…
- Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.
- Never cut what you can untie.
- The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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