It's long been my experience that after I learn a valuable lesson through a
lengthy and costly period of trial and error, I will quickly find that
lesson stated in the most explicit terms in all sorts of places where I
might easily have found it before.
-- Christopher R. Beha. "The Marquise Went out at Five O'clock: On
Making Sentences Do Something." (August 30, 2012)
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