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Quote DB :: Authors :: T.S. Eliot :: View Quote View Quote "In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause." - Copy to Clipboard   --  T.S. Eliot Listed in: Wisdom Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.75  Rate Quote 4 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from T.S. Eliot "For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." "Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature." "Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves." "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." "Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." Top 5 quotes from Wisdom "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." "The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves." "Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom." "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

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