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"The wise man learns from the mistakes of others, the fool must learn from his own."

January 1, 1970

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Reported by Joseph P. Fusco, Challenge to Love (1969), p. 104, as an "ancient proverb"; cp. the variant reported in Basic English Revisited: A Student Handbook (1980), p. 19: "We need strong minds, not strong emotions, to solve our problems. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others; the fool, from his own."

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Reported by Joseph P. Fusco, Challenge to Love (1969), p. 104, as an "ancient proverb"; cp. the variant reported in Basic English Revisited: A Student Handbook (1980), p. 19: "We need strong minds, not strong emotions, to solve our problems. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others; the fool, from his own."