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Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones. - Josh Bil

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones. – Josh Billings

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Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland. – Josh Billings

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Dogs
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Josh Billings
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It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. – Josh Billings

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Evil
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Josh Billings
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Experience
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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Experience

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. – Ellen Key

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Experience

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a learning experience. Then again, I like to think of anything stupid Ive done as a learning experience. It makes me feel less stupid. – P. J. ORourke

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Experience

Truth be told, Im not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though its been my experience that most people dont want to be entertained. They want to be comforted. – Richard Russo

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Experience

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Despite crimes omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium. – Camille Anna Paglia

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Order

I dont see pitches down the middle anymore – not even in batting practice. – Hank Aaron

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Sports :: Baseball

The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! – Henry Ward Beecher

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Thanksgiving Day

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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USA Patriotic