"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."
"Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought."
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Source: David Starr Jordan (1896). “The Care and Culture of Men: A Series of Addresses on the Higher Education”
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