| We should be careful to get out of an experience
only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat
that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid
again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one
anymore. - "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" |
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| War talk by men who have been in a war
is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the
moon is likely to be dull. - Life on the Mississippi |
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| Experience teaches us only one thing at
at time -- and hardly that, in my case. - Letter to Clara Clemens, 5 February 1893 The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of booky teaching, but of experience. - A Tramp Abroad It is from experiences such as mine that we get our education of life. We string them into jewels or into tinware, as we may choose. - Mark Twain, a Biography |
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| 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. - attributed by Reader's Digest, Sept. 1937. This quote has been attributed to Mark Twain, but until the attribution can be verified, the quote should not be regarded as authentic. |
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