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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.

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    Washington Irving about Age

    A tart temper never mellows with age and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

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