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Enthusiasm – a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. – Ambrose Bierce

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A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be. – Ambrose Bierce

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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce

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If the experience of science teaches anything, its that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that. – John Polkinghorne

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Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. – Franklin P. Jones

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In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds. – Thor Heyerdahl

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Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream. – Ernie Harwell

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Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life. – Mahatma Gandhi

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