Wisdom purchased

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Wisdom purchased.

The wise and the foolish. · Acquisition and possession of wisdom (knowledge). · Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge). · view the constellation · filed as J163

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Filed under Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge).

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Man buys a pennyworth of wit Man to bring wife a purseful of sense One eye exchanged for wisdom. (Odin.)Good counsels bought

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Wisdom from old person Wisdom (knowledge) from sage (teacher)Wisdom from holy man Wise words of dying father. Counsel proved wise by experience Wisdom (knowledge) from women Wisdom from fools Wisdom (knowledge) from dream Wisdom from angel Trial rehearsed before stick in the ground as judge Wisdom acquired by hanging in a tree Wisdom from God Tree of knowledge Wisdom from books Wisdom from continual reminder of foolishness in the past. Unjust judge skinned and his skin stretched over a footstool kept in the presence of judges, so as to remind them to be just Inscription on walls for condensed education Proverbial wisdom: counsels. (Cf. B82.6.)

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