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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no soo

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. – Ellen Glasgow

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The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. – Ellen Glasgow

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History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. – Gerald R. Ford

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Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement. – Christian Slater

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I really do love Diana Ross I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her. – Salma Hayek

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