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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Watch out when you’re getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain’t in luck.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Look twice before you leap.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.