Walt's World of Wisdom
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Wisdom 121
Far too many relied on the classic formula of
a beginning, a muddle, and an end.
Philip Larkin
Source: New Fiction (1978)
Comment: Of the books entered for the 1977 Booker Prize
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Wisdom 122
Books say: she did this because.
Life says: she did this.
Books are where things are explained to you;
life is where things aren't.
Julian Barnes
Source: Flaubert's Parrot (1984)
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Wisdom 123
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Source: Afterthoughts (1931)
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Wisdom 124
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hot for certainties in this our life!
George Meredith
Source: Modern Love (1862)
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Wisdom 125
Then let us pray that come it may,
(As come it will for a' that,)
That Sense and Worth, o'er a' the earth,
Shall bear the gree, an' a' that.
For a' that, an' a' that,
It's coming yet for a' that,
That Man to Man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that.
Robert Burns
Source: A Man's A Man for A' That
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Wisdom 126
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley.
Robert Burns
Source: To A Mouse (1786)
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Wisdom 127
Plus ça change, plus c'est la m?me chose.
(The more things change, the more they are the same.)
Alphonse Karr
Source: Les Guêpes (January 1849)
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Wisdom 128
You can't step twice into the same river.
Heraclitus
Source: Plato's Cratylus
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Wisdom 129
If you want things to stay as they are,
things will have to change.
Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Source: The Leopard (1957)
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Wisdom 130
“Every man is in certain respects
(a) like all other men,
(b) like some other men,
(c) like no other man.”
Henry Murray and Clyde Kluckhohn
Source: Personality in Nature, Society, and Culture (1948)
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