Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

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Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

After all the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge it is always simple and direct.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

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    Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.

    For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

    For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

    The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

    The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven, if you still know everything, you're still seventeen.

    One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

    One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

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