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Page 121
... wisdom . Wisdom ! how inexhaustible a theme ! A sort of peace- ful aureole surrounds and illumines this thought , in which are summed up all the treasures of moral experience , and which is the ripest fruit of a well - spent life . Wisdom ...
... wisdom . Wisdom ! how inexhaustible a theme ! A sort of peace- ful aureole surrounds and illumines this thought , in which are summed up all the treasures of moral experience , and which is the ripest fruit of a well - spent life . Wisdom ...
Page 254
... wisdom . December 11 , 1872. -A deep and dreamless sleep and now I wake up to the gray , lowering , rainy sky , which has kept us company for so long . The air is mild , the general outlook depressing . I think that it is partly the ...
... wisdom . December 11 , 1872. -A deep and dreamless sleep and now I wake up to the gray , lowering , rainy sky , which has kept us company for so long . The air is mild , the general outlook depressing . I think that it is partly the ...
Page 271
... wisdom , thought , and reason , are also theirs . The game of these conjurors and quacks of uni- versal suffrage has always been to flatter the crowd in order to make an instrument of it . They pretend to adore the puppet of which they ...
... wisdom , thought , and reason , are also theirs . The game of these conjurors and quacks of uni- versal suffrage has always been to flatter the crowd in order to make an instrument of it . They pretend to adore the puppet of which they ...
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