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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
Writer
Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Learn
Easy
Experience
Nothing
Hard
Apply
Learning
Wise

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