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"Experience teaches only the teachable."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
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"It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests."
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"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
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"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
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"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."
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"The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure."
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"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
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"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
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"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."
Cultural
"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
Freedom
"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."
Life
"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
Work
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
History
"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."
Time
"Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation."
Man
"Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning."
Life
"Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors."
Truth
"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."
Religion
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