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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and
scarcely in that; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot
give conduct. Remember this: They that will not be counseled cannot
be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you over the knuckles.
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
-- Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757

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