Adversity is a great teacher but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive is not worth the price we paid.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading...
Our government is the potent the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it...
Every cliche about kids is true they grow up so quickly you blink and they're gone and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.