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Quote by Mark Twain
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom t

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. – Mark Twain

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We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground. – Mark Twain

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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. – Mark Twain

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