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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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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. – Samuel Smiles

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The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. – Samuel Smiles

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Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you dont adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary. – Jeffrey Kluger

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The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience. – Gloria Swanson

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