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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesira

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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Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. – Ambrose Bierce

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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. – Francis Bacon

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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. – Albert Camus

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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. – Jane Smiley

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Every secret of a writers soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. – Virginia Woolf

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