"Grandmamma, what great ears you have got!" — Andrew Lang

If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

It is never too late to be wise.

Source: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things

Source: Walden (1854)

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

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