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A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men's works, for his own memory sake, into short room. - [Quotations] He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. - [Experience] It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children. - [Teaching] It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay. - [Ladies] Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. - [Learning] To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill. - [Rashness] Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little. - [Authorship] To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do. - Dedication to All the Gentlemen and Yeomen of England [Wisdom] By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. - Schoolmaster [Experience] It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. - Schoolmaster [Experience] To laugh, to lie, to flatter to face, Foure waies in court to win men's grace. - Schoolmaster [Courtiers]
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