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«Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield (Diplomat, Statesman, Wit) | Keywords: wiser
«As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own»
«A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | About: Men | Keywords: in other words, wiser
«An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men»
«A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | About: Shame | Keywords: wiser
«Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.»
«After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser»
«A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: in other words, wiser
«A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.»
«As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.»

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