Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.

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Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.

Selden · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 476

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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

Selden · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 150

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Wit and wisdom differ. Wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is in bringing about ends.

Selden · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 362

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He that will give himself to all manner of ways to get money may be rich; so he that lets fly all he knows or thinks may by chance be satirically witty. Honesty sometimes keeps a man from growing rich, and civility from being witty.

Selden · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 470

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No man is the wiser for his learning. It may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon, but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Selden · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 558