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By this story [The Fox and the Raven] it is shown how much ingenuity avails, and how wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
-- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 13, 13...
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noble
Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest....
By thunders of white silence.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861) -- Hiram Powers's Greek Slave...
By trying, we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's, I mean. -- Mark Twai
By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble though
and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct....
By virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. -- Robert Lynd
By words the mind is winged -- Aristophanes (c. 450-385 B.C.) -- The Birds (414 B.C.), line 1447
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
-- Robert Fro...
By work you get money, by talk you get knowledge. -- Jaliburto

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