Experience is the best teacher
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Experience is the best teacher, and that's what they're going to get right now.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2011
Experience is the best teacher in this respect, and you will in time learn to analyze the condition of a battery quickly.
From The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair by Witte, Otto A.
Experience is the best teacher, and gives lessons to all.
From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 by Peters, Charles
"Experience is the best teacher, and no one will ever rob us in the same way again."
From Mona by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.
Restate in concrete terms such generalizations as the following: Experience is the best teacher.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)
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