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NOVELISTS > novelist, journalist, river pilot > Mark Twain
We should be...
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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit
Source: Following the Equator, ch. 11, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, 1897.
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30 1835-1910), US novelist, journalist, river pilot; The Great American humorist was also known as The People's Author and creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.