[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

Charles Dickens
[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
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When we look back at the ways of our ancestors, we see that they had many good ideas, but few of these were actually put into practice. We think that our ancestors just didn’t try hard enough to implement them. But this is not the case. Their wisdom lay in their ability to understand that things are somewhat like other things.

They looked for patterns and drew analogies between them, which allowed them to see similarities among existing things and to extract the lessons they could learn from them. We can learn a lot from our ancestors in this way.

Source: A Christmas Carol

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