This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching; for he that was taught by himself had a fool to his master.
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Great wealth is a great blessing to a man who knows what to do with it.
Know how to use your enemies. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.
Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not take money.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation.
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