Ernest Bramah Quotes on Wisdom

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  1. It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops.

  2. The one-legged never stumble.

  3. Eat in the dark the bargain that you purchased in the dusk.

  4. 'When an alluring woman comes in at the door,' warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, 'discretion may be found up the chimney'. It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: 'The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly.'

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