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They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another anything there are people who learn from their own mistakes, eventually and with great pain and then there are the really wise people who learn from other people's mistakes and spare themselves the suffering.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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