Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
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If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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