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[Wilson Gray]

Heard, spoken by mid-thirty-ish black man, loser in a civil lawsuit: "A
bought lesson is a taught lesson."

Misery Loves Company, But God Loves Us More - Page ix and Page  195
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=161579090X
Adrienne L. Miller - 2009 - ‎Preview
Page ix:
A bought lesson is a taught lesson
Page 195:
It's one thing to pay for a foolish lesson with my own money, but when I
have to learn a lesson at the expense of my love [sic] ones and friends, _a
bought lesson is a taught lesson_.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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