In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. — Quoted

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“In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.”

Quintilian · Experience

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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

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