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Wise

Town and administrative headquarters of Wise County, extreme southwest Virginia; population (1990) 3,200. It is situated in the Cumberland Mountains, near the Kentucky state line, and 19 km/12 mi northeast of Big Stone Gap. It is a trade centre for a bituminous coal mining and agricultural region. The town is home to Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia (1954).
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seeing he wasn't going to stop saying over his "wise Stubb, wise Stubb," I thought I might as well fall to kicking the pyramid again.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
I climbed the barren mountain, And my gaze swept far and wide For the red-lit eaves of my father's home, And I fancied that he sighed: My son has gone for a soldier, For a soldier night and day; But my son is wise, and may yet return, When the drums have died away.
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People commended unto Zarathustra a wise man, as one who could discourse well about sleep and virtue: greatly was he honoured and rewarded for it, and all the youths sat before his chair.
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