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Experience, n.

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The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

[To one who, journeying through night and fog]

To one who, journeying through night and fog,
Is mired neck-deep in an unwholesome bog,
Experience, like the rising of the dawn,
Reveals the path that he should not have gone.
Joel Frad Bink.