WISDOM in Classic Quotes

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1  There was some hope in this piece of wisdom, and it rather encouraged me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
2  I had the highest opinion of the wisdom of this same Margin, but I am bound to acknowledge that on looking back, I deem it to have been an expensive device.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIV
3  No wisdom on earth could have given me the comfort that I should have derived from their simplicity and fidelity; but I could never, never, undo what I had done.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
4  Many pleasant pictures of the life that I would lead there, and of the change for the better that would come over my character when I had a guiding spirit at my side whose simple faith and clear home wisdom I had proved, beguiled my way.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVIII