`` You 've been four of the dearest , sweetest , goodest girls that ever went together through college , '' averred Aunt Jamesina , who never spoiled a compliment by misplaced economy . `` But I mistrust you have n't any too much sense yet . It 's not to be expected , of course . Experience teaches sense . You ca n't learn it in a college course . You 've been to college four years and I never was , but I know heaps more than you do , young ladies . '' '' ` There are lots of things that never go by rule , There 's a powerful pile o ' knowledge That you never get at college , There are heaps of things you never learn at school , ' '' quoted Stella . `` Have you learned anything at Redmond except dead languages and geometry and such trash ? '' queried Aunt Jamesina . `` Oh , yes . I think we have , Aunty , '' protested Anne . `` We 've learned the truth of what Professor Woodleigh told us last Philomathic , '' said Phil . `` He said , ` Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence . Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them , joke over your troubles but gather strength from them , make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them . ' Is n't that worth learning , Aunt Jimsie ? '' `` Yes , it is , dearie . When you 've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at , and not to laugh at those that should n't , you 've got wisdom and understanding . '' `` What have you got out of your Redmond course , Anne ? '' murmured Priscilla aside . `` I think , '' said Anne slowly , `` that I really have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as the foreshadowing of victory .
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