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Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

Benjamin Franklin

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Dear in the sense of expensive

Benjamin Franklin

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

Benjamin Franklin

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Benjamin Franklin

Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skillful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.

Benjamin Franklin

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

Benjamin Franklin

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

Benjamin Franklin