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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
Believe Robert who has tried it.
[Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]
Believe Robert who has tried it.
[Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
There's no substitute for experience
There's no substitute for 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.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.