Is Wisdom Just the Dying of Temptation

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You understand human nature when you are never surprised by anything it does. – Vernon Howard

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the result of thought and resolution. – Anthony Trollope

Great men are not always wise. – Bible

The wise man is satisfied with nothing. – William Godwin

Altiloquence, n. pompous speech. – Mrs. Byrnes Dictionary

You just never learn anything when you’re talking. – Jeffrey G. Allen

Experience shows over and over again that there is nothing which men have less power over than the tongue. – Baruch Spinoza

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