Where does reading make people smart come from?

Reading history makes people wise, reading poems makes people witty, mathematics makes people careful, science makes people deep, ethics makes people grave, logic and rhetoric makes people eloquent, and whoever has learned something will become a character.

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There are other famous quotations about bacon:

People who can't get friendship are poor loners all their lives. A society without friendship is just a bustling desert.

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Compassion is the highest virtue of all morals.

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One of the main functions of friendship is to release the anger and depression in people's hearts, which can be caused by various emotions.

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Good luck is enviable, but overcoming bad luck is even more amazing.

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Man's majesty lies in knowledge. So people have a lot of gold and silver that the monarch can't buy, and the monarch's force can't conquer the inner things.

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Pursuing the truth, knowing the truth and relying on the truth are the highest qualities in human nature.

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The evaluation of a person is not based on his wealth background, but on his true moral quality.

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When you are frustrated, angry and depressed, telling your close friend once can help you get guidance. Otherwise, this stagnation is disgusting. As the saying goes, people are always willing to keep the greatest flattery to themselves, but the harsh advice of friends can cure this problem. Friends can give advice from two aspects: one is about conduct, and the other is about career.

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You can't have both love and wisdom.

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Time is the measure of career.

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