We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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