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“Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than...”
“We need Wisdom to seek for the Kindom and we need the Kingdom to have the Freedom to posess all other things!”
“Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.”
“A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens.”
“We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and Walter Moody was nothing if not excessively discreet.”
“Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to drawso near to him? I asked myself. Surely she cannot truly like him, or notlike him with true affection! If she did, she need not coin...”
“Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham”
“If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.”
“Samad! My mouth is like the grave! Whatever is told to me dies with me."Whatever was told to Zinat invariably lit up the telephone network, rebounded off aerials, radio waves, and satellites along ...”
“Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to drawso near to him?” I asked myself. “Surely she cannot truly like him, or notlike him with true affection! If she did, she need not co...”
