...just three. So ended my experiment with a loss and a recollection that Benjamin Franklin once wrote, " Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." WILLIAM WING. Steeple Aston, Oxford. "FIRST AN ENGLISHMAN AND THEN A WHIG " [5th S. ix. 127.) — The...

...in fuel. Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt. Get what you can, and what you got hold ; Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarcely in that, for we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. They that will not be counselled cannot be helped....

...(Tryon), We rarely leani from the teachings of past ages, but only from our own experience. Franklin. Experience keeps a dear school; but fools will learn in no other, and scarcely in that. An empty purse, and building a great house, make a man wise, but sometimes too late. [See 28.] 317....

...fear is that they will not be heeded by the people for the reason expressed in the old proverb : ' ' Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." I insert this document here to give it more permanence and a wider circulation. I am unable to pay...

...conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. — Terence. EXPERIENCE. — Experience keeps a dear school ; but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that ; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. However, they that...

...uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. " And now, to conclude, ' Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other,' as Poor Richard says, and scarce in that ; for it is true, ' We may give advice, but we cannot give...

...comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. '.' And now, to conclude, ' experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other,' as poor Richard says, and scarce in that; for, it is true, ' we may give advice, but we cannot give...

...fools will learn in »o other,-" äs poor Richard says, and scarce H«rl|t, Americ»n. Literatur. II. in that; for, it is true, „we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct:" however, remember (his, „they that will not be counselled cannot be helped;" and fariher, that „if...

...comfort and help them. Remember, Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. " And now to conclude, ' Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other,' as poor Richard says, and scarce in that ; for it is true, ' We may give advice, but we cannot give...

...effect, and calculated practical results from active principles. It would save them oceans of misery. " Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." When will people take a hint, and spare themselves 30 much cost ? They now regard any thing and every...