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Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.
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Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
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I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.
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Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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