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• A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
  -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xxiv, 5...
• A man that hath friends must show himself friendly
  and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother....
• As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
  Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him....
• A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim.
  One was more wise than the other. -- Stephan Crane, "The Black Riders and Other Lines", 1895...
• CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• A pig on a mountain sees more than a wise man with a bag over his head.
• A Wise Man can see more from the bottom of a well than a Fool can see from the top of a mountain.
• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
  -- Francis Bacon, English philosopher (1561-1626)...
• Wise man see more from mountain top than fool from bottom of well.