Let others mind their own melant'i. An old lesson, that; among the first.
The best of apprentices always move on, having learned to integrate old lessons with new goals.
But one of the oldest lessons in international affairs is that not every problem has a neat solution.
To me it simply repeats the old lesson: be sure with whom you deal.
It was an old lesson, etched in my brain, yet one I'd never been able to follow.
Such searching is something people do all the time, casting through old lessons to solve new problems.
Perhaps they weren't taught the old feminist lessons of how to fight informal discrimination against women.
If you beat him, all he'll learn is the old lesson he already knows, that the strong have the right to enslave the weak.
It was an old lesson, one of the first Howard taught him.
He had learned that old literary lesson well enough: You couldn't go home again.