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Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:45:29 +0000

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
—Oscar Wilde

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:45:15 +0000

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.
—Mark Twain

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:44:59 +0000

Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.
—Judith Stern

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:44:40 +0000

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
—George Bernard Shaw

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:44:22 +0000

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!
—George Bernard Shaw

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:43:30 +0000

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
—Joseph Roux

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:43:04 +0000

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
—Rodin

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:42:52 +0000

A burnt child dreads the fire.
—English Proverb

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:42:37 +0000

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
—James Russell Lowell

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:42:05 +0000

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
—Abraham Lincoln