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"Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high."
"Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high."
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old read more
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.
Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
