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• Permission for lip to wobble, Sir?
• Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noble
  Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest....
• A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants visio
  but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience....
• He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner.
  -- Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) -- Defence of Poesy...
• A political war is one in which everyone shoots from the lip.