None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.

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Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

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Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

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The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

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