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“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 80fae071ce1869618b33cafdab6543580246b8341370446532c89a62fd63bbd6
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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