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noun • shrub with terminal tufts of elongated leaves used locally for thatching and clothing; thick sweet roots are used as food; tropical southeastern Asia, Australia and Hawaii • a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite • the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization | ||||||||
28% | 15 | The proverbial wise ruling of a wise king | ||||||
noun • an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC | ||||||||
24% | 9 | Folly | ||||||
noun • a message whose content is at variance with reason • a ludicrous folly | ||||||||
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2 | "___ folly to be wise": Gray
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4 | Latin for 'wise wise man' | |
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6 | Who wrote "Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise"
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7 | Wrote the line 'Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise' |