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“They say that a smart person learns from her mistakes,” she interrupted, her voice forcefully ending his protest. “But a truly smart person learns from other people’s mistakes.”
― Julia Quinn, An Offer From a Gentleman

“It's like a battery that has to have a positive and a negative. One doesn't work without the other. You've gotta have the good and the bad in order to know what's right, and in order to know what's real and what ain't.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“History, after all, isn't told by the dead.”
― Daniel Stone, Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic