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Read First The Best Books. The Important Thing For You Is Not How Much You Know, But The Quality Of What You Know.

Ask A Wise Man To Dinner And He'll Upset Everyone By His Gloomy Silence Or Tiresome Questions. Invite Him To A Dance And You'll Have A Camel Prancing About. Haul Him Off To A Public Entertainment And His Face Will Be Enough To Spoil The People's Entertainment.

Out Of All Those Centuries The Greeks Can Count Seven Sages At The Most, And If Anyone Looks At Them More Closely I Swear He'll Not Find So Much As A Half-wise Man Or Even A Third Of A Wise Man Among Them.

If You Look At History You'll Find That No State Has Been So Plagued By Its Rulers As When Power Has Fallen Into The Hands Of Some Dabbler In Philosophy Or Literary Addict.

Retain The Wind By Compressing The Belly.