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  Learn from experience and from your mistakes.
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  live and learn

  Profit from experience, as in I ignored the garden book, planted my beans in March, and they all rotted—live and learn. [Second half of 1500s]

Live and learn

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1. Learn from experience and from your mistakes.

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live and learn Idioms  

1. Profit from experience, as in I ignored the garden book, planted my beans in March, and they all rotted—live and learn. [Second half of 1500s]

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Live and learn framed the 13th-ranked Bruins’ 37-3 victory over UNLV.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2015

Live and learn, and always always always focus on product updates earlier than you anticipate.

From Forbes ● Oct. 10, 2014

Live and learn," thought the cobbler; "here is fame as well as wealth.

From Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

Live and learn, my friend, live and learn.

From Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories by Thomas W. Hanshew

"Live and learn" is his motto; and he does both, but especially the former, in a way to excite the admiration of all disinterested observers.

From A Rambler's lease by Bradford Torrey

Harris could just say: You live and learn.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2024

"I'd say there were a few tactical errors but you live and learn," said the 19-year-old, who will continue to chase the European 1500m standard in the coming weeks.

From BBC ● May 11, 2024

When a flabbergasted Fox host, Dana Perino, pointed to Mr. Bolduc’s adamant statements before the primary, he shrugged: “You know, live and learn, right?”

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

It is our responsibility to ensure that our students live and learn in a community of mutual respect.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2018

But I am but a child, and must live and learn before I talk more freely.

From The Bird and Insects' Post Office by Robert Bloomfield