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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

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