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" Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true, we may give Advice, but we cannot give Conduct... "
Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect: A Lover of Nature and of His Kind, who ... - Page 381
by Charles William Eliot - 1902 - 770 pages
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The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and ..., Volume 2

Benjamin Franklin - 1844 - 600 pages
...comfort and help them Remember, Job suffered, and was afterwards pros perous. "And now, to conclude, Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, as Poor Richard says, and scarce in that ; for, it is true, We may give advice, but we cannot give...
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Elocution; Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...4. Constant occupation, prevents temptation. 5. Courage — ought to have eyes, as well as ears. 6. Experience — keeps a dear school ; but fools will learn in no other. 7, Follow the wise few, rather than th« foolish many. 8. Good actions are the best sacrifice. 9. He...
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Western Miscellany, Volume 1

Benjamin Franklin Ells - 1778 - 392 pages
...comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. "And now, to coaclude, "experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other," and scarce in that; for, it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct;" however, remember...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin

Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 522 pages
...comfort and help them. Remember, Job suffered, and was afterward prosperous. " And now, to conclude, Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, as Poor Richard says, and scarcely in that ; for it is true — We may give advice, but we can not...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 57

1878 - 668 pages
...just three. So ended my experiment with a loss and a recollection that Benjamin Franklin once wrote, " Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." WILLIAM WING. Steeple Aston, Oxford. "FIRST AN ENGLISHMAN AND THEN A WHIG " [5th S. ix. 127.) — The...
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London at table; or, How, when, and where to dine and order a dinner

1851 - 112 pages
...in fuel. Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt. Get what you can, and what you got hold ; Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarcely in that, for we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. They that will not be counselled...
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A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker: Containing Over a Thousand Subjects ...

Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 pages
...(Tryon), We rarely leani from the teachings of past ages, but only from our own experience. Franklin. Experience keeps a dear school; but fools will learn in no other, and scarcely in that. An empty purse, and building a great house, make a man wise, but sometimes too...
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The Christian Philosopher & Metaphysician: A Series of Tracts, to be ...

John Lord - 1852 - 360 pages
...fear is that they will not be heeded by the people for the reason expressed in the old proverb : ' ' Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." I insert this document here to give it more permanence and a wider circulation. I am unable to pay...
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The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 pages
...comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. '.' And now, to conclude, ' experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other,' as poor Richard says, and scarce in that; for, it is true, ' we may give advice, but we cannot give...
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The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pages
...conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. — Terence. EXPERIENCE. — Experience keeps a dear school ; but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that ; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. However, they...
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