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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Source: In Poor Man's College Quotations Collection, ed. Sidney Madwed, AAPEX software, 1994.
-- Samuel Smiles, (Dec 23 1812-1904), Scottish author; He was best known for Self-Help, 1859 which enshrined the Victorian values associated with the gospel of work.

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