"When I
cannot remember exactly on what I spend the money I put 'P.G.,' which
means 'Probably grub.'"
"Don't you find it hard these times to meet expenses?"
"Hard? Man alive! I meet expenses at every turn."
EXPERIENCE
"Did you ever realize anything on that investment?"
"Oh, yes."
"What did you realize on it?"
"What a fool I had been."
It is as easy to buy experience as it is difficult to sell it.
"Have you ever had any experience in handling high-class ware?" asked
a dealer in bric-a-brac of an applicant for work.
"No, sir," was the reply, "but I think I can do it."
"Suppose," said the dealer, "you accidentally broke a very valuable
porcelain vase, what would you do?"
"I should put it carefully together," replied the man, "and set it
where a wealthy customer would be sure to knock it over again."
"Consider yourself engaged," said the dealer. "Now, tell me where you
learned that trick of the trade."
"A few years ago," answered the other, "I was one of the
'wealthy-customer' class."
Experience is a dead loss if you can't sell it for more than it cost.
Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.--_A. Bronson
Alcott_.
I know
The past and thence I will essay to glean
A warning for the future, so that man
May profit by his errors, and derive
Experience from his folly;
For, when the power of imparting joy
Is equal to the will, the human soul
Requires no other heaven.
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