Friendship with the wise gets ...

Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.
Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.
 Thiruvalluvar

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.
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Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.
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It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues, Which moves the world.
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