“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”
No. 1, volume v, p. 331
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)
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George Long (1800–1879) English classical scholar
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Karen Armstrong (1944) author and comparative religion scholar from Great Britain
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Edmund Landau (1877–1938) German Jewish mathematician
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James Dobson (1936) Evangelical Christian psychologist, author, and radio broadcaster.
From Dare to Discipline discussed on Good-Natured Child Needs His Share of Parents' Attention, Focus on the Family, 11/21/2004
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