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"There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."
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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
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"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."
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"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."
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"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time."
Happiness
"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."
Travel
"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."
Genius
"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense."
Genius
"As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them."
Family
"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
Life
"When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him."
Advice
"It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money."
Money
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."
Love
"No one can disgrace us but ourselves."
Disgrace
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