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To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

Folly pursues us throughout our lives, and the man whom we call wise is he whose follies are proportionate to his age and to his fortune.

If we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another; for no man prospers so suddenly as by others’ errors.

Profit from folly rather than participate in it.

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that mankind has invented yet.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

Fiction is Truth’s elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till somebody had told a story.

Fiction is Truth’s elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till somebody had told a story.

Fiction is the higher autobiography.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot-stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.