Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace. - Walter Savage Landor

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Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed away, so did that idea.

Walter Savage Landor

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

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