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Quote by Abigail Adams
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lesson

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. – Abigail Adams

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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. – Abigail Adams

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Knowledge
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. – Abigail Adams

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Marriage
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. – Abigail Adams

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power
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Other Quotes from
Experience
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I believe theres no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Experience

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the days unity. – Charles Ives

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Experience

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous. – David Ogilvy

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Experience

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one. – Lady Gaga

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Experience

Random Quotes

The multitude of books is making us ignorant. – Voltaire

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Books

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Hope

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark. – Samuel Johnson

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Cowardice/Weakness

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house. – Warren E. Burger

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legal