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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.


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BIBLE I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not in...
KATHARINE WHITEHORN Many find their heart when they have lost their head.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE should hang their head in shame.
JESSE VENTURA I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not in...
KATHARINE WHITEHORN Failure should be archived in head, not heart.
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER No wise person should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractice in their house, his being chea...
HITOPADESA Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
JAMES BOSWELL Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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DEYTH BANGER You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.
MATT GROENING Every person has their own black hole inside their head.
MATT MALDRE In 18 days, Jonathan U should have walked out of that hospital.
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THOMAS BECKET I tell children they'll have a movie in their head.
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JONATHAN SWIFT It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
JONATHAN SWIFT Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us th...
JONATHAN SWIFT Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller...
JONATHAN SWIFT The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowde...
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