“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
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Marcel Proust
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Edmund Burke
“Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.”
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Johann Georg von Zimmermann
“Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.”
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Aldous Huxley
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
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