Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can perfection be expected? It therefore astonishes men to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does...
...wisdom of the American Founding Father, spoken at a time of life which in itself commands veneration in China, so impressed all readers that copies were soon circulated throughout Chungking...
...mind at its best-a kind of adult blend of Tom Sawyer's intelligence and Huck Finn's human decency- that gave his life and gives his autobiography its special flavor. Moreover, he possessed as a birthright that ultimate skepticism which is the proportioning power of true wisdom...
Shirley Temple began to be overtaken by the infirmities of age: out, forcibly, came two impacted wisdom teeth; out soon would come two more...
...economic council became a respected voice of prudence and wisdom, it would well earn its $45,000 salary. And it could hardly do worse than the improvised, off-the-arm economics of such recent dilettante practitioners as Henry Morgenthau and John Snyder...