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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

~Edith Wharton

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Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.

~Edmund Morgan

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History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.

~Edmund Morgan

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I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.

~Edmund Phelps

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In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.

~Edmund Phelps

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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

~Edmund Spenser

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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

~Edmund Waller

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And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.

~Edmund Waller

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My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.

~Edna O'Brien

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

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