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«Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence»
«Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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«A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out»
«Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight»
«Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to e»
«Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others»
«... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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«Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.»
«Every fool can find faults that a great many wise men can't remedy»
«All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.»
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