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Roses, Thomas Browne

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When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. - Thomas Browne, in Vulgar Errors, as reported in Ba...

Wisdom, The Bible

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Get wisdom, because it is better than gold: and purchase prudence, for it is more precious than silver. - The Bible, The Book of Proverbs ...

Necessity, Abigail Adams

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These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great...

Mankind, Douglas Adams

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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent dis...

Flowers, Henry Ward Beecher

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Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. - Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts (1858), p. 234. h...

Luck, John Hay

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True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. - John Hay ...

Silence, Spanish Proverb

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Dead dogs bark not. - Spanish Proverb 죽은 개는 짖지 않는다. - 스페인속담

Wisdom, Marcel Proust

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. - Marcel Proust ...

Money, Western Proverb

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The worth of money is not in its possession, but in its use. - Western Proverb 돈의 가치는 소유가 아니라 사용하는데 있다. - 서양속담

Regrets, Ingrid Bergman

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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say. - Ingrid ...