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• Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward.
• Quote #95 Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
  -- Olivier Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again....
• Experience is the best teache
• For neatness, always draw the curves first, and afterwards plot the data. -- Finagle's Third Rule
• Death is the one experience which we cannot put in perspective afterwards.
• Geologists do it eruptively, with glow, and always smoke afterwards.
• Conclusion first, Premise afterwards. -- Joseph Rickaby