Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable posession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.
The most dangerous thing is illusion.
It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.
Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.
A grown child is a dangerous thing.
A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
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