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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
[Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.]
Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
[Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.]
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a read more
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.rn
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
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.
Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
bread, and how sad a path it read more
Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's
stairs.
[It., Tu proverai si come sa di sale
Lo pane altrui, e com e duro calle
Lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale.]
Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
