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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. -

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. – Walter Pater

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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. – Walter Pater

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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – Walter Pater

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Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting. – Mike Krzyzewski

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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. – E. M. Forster

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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. – Samuel Smiles

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I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience. – Cathy Guisewite

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