Wisdom
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
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War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.