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“Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.”

Elizabeth Hardwick · Wisdom

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Elizabeth Hardwick

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Experience

Elizabeth Hardwick

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

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Bennie Thompson

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

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H. L. Mencken

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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