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  • We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

    Following the Equator ch. 11, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)