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Quote by Samuel Smiles
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience

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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Im as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me! – Samuel Smiles

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It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application. – Samuel Smiles

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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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Ive learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, its important to knock them down a peg. – Jonah Hill

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Surfing soothes me, its always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when Im on a wave. – Paul Walker

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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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