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Carolyn Kenmore, Mannequin: My Life as a Model

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.

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school of hard knocks

[school of hard knocks] {n. phr.} Life outside of school or college; life out in the world; the ordinary experience of learning from work and troubles. * /He never went […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

live and learn

[live and learn] You learn more new things the longer you live; you learn by experience. - A proverb. * /"Live and learn," said Mother. "I never knew that the […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

Learn English with Pictures and Video

This is how it works: Select a topic videoLearn new words through picturesWatch them come to life through videoTest what you've learned at the end through a video quiz Here […] EnglishClass101

learn by rote

[learn by rote] {v. phr.} To blindly memorize what was taught without thinking about it. * /If you learn a subject by rote, it will be difficult to say anything […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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