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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom

Polly, July 3, 2013

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No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

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Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

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