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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
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Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
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We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
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