"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."
― George Washington
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Experience
― George Washington
More From George Washington
- "It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it."
- "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
- "Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
More In Experience
- "You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape."― Woodrow Wilson
- "When a child comes in, I believe that it’s a ‘multipersonhood,’ and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are."― Shirley MacLaine
- "Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder."― David Copperfield