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Love of learning vs. love of wisdom.
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Dear Faldage: Many learned people are not wise. But few wise people are unlearned.
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So a philosoph will be a philomath but a philomath need not be a philosoph.
Need the learning be formal?
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The wisest man I ever knew was educated in the College of Hard Knocks. But also read a lot, with underatanding.
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Did you guys really think I'd leave this one alone? Ithyphallic, coupled with T. S. Elliot's "...not with a bang,..."? ROTFLMAO
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Dear Keiva: And do you remember the neurophysiology behind the vulgar taunt: I hope you die ithyphallic?
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Remember no; understand, yes! (And you aren't talking about "as in the movie Private Benjamin".)
Well, ithy or ithn't ty?
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A good word to drop at a cocktail party.....or maybe at a parade. " For Zeus' sake, Socrates, start the procession while I'm still ithyphallic." 
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could the antonym be moribund ?
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We probed this word thoroughly last October.
