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Ambrose Bierce Quotes: Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
         

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.


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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
         



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This page presents the quote "Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.". Author of this quote is Ambrose Bierce. This quote is about folly, old, wisdom,.