"Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs……" — George Santayana

"Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it..."

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