It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
(The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. It is by little things that we know ourselves. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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