It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
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By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
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Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
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To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
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The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
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Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
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There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
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In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
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In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.
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Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.
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