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That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Born: 1792
Born: April 6
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When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack dead, we remember only those they possessed.
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In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.
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True courage is like a kite a contrary wind raises it higher.
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Without big words, how could many people say small things?
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It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.
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No woman dares express all she thinks.
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