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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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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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