The Art of Worldly Wisdom is composed of three hundred maxims or wise sayings. Since its first English translation in 1892, its appeal has endured: in 1992 it remained 18 weeks (2 weeks in first place) on the Washington Post's list of Nonfiction General Best Sellers. It has sold nearly 200, 000 copies. This is the great classic of wisdom literature...
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The remarkable best-seller -- a long-lost, 300-year-old book of wisdom on how to live successfully yet responsibly in a society governed by self-interest -- as acute as Machiavelli yet as humanistic and scrupulously moral as Marcus Aurelius.
le best-seller -- a long-lost, 300-year-old book of wisdom on how to live successfully yet responsibly in a society governed by self-interest -- as acute as Machiavelli yet as humanistic and scrupulously moral as Marcus Aurelius.
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