Grant also learned a valuable personal lesson on preparedness that (mostly) served him well for the rest of the war.
It would fit a report on female education, a review of personal lessons learned, a how-to for first-time female C.E.O.'s or a literary memoir of how one becomes a woman; but on this book it quietly fits them all.
From his long years of government service, Gates said he has learned two personal lessons: the necessity for "a sense of humility and an appreciation of limits".
As a personal lesson in the reality of poverty, Rich, Famous and Hungry can only be a joke: who can't bear a week anywhere, if you know you will, eventually, be returned to Kansas?
In Washington, Mr Brown called this a personal lesson from his father, "a minister of the church".
Like the tradition of hiding the afikomen for little children, our personal lesson is sometimes easy to find.
Potter took the lulls as an opportunity to give us a personal history lesson of Pipeline and its fierce localism.
All three parts of The Fairchild Family "taught the lessons of personal endurance, reliance on Providence, and acceptance of one's earthly status".
During the 1820s and 1830s, Sherwood wrote a great many tracts for the poor; like her novels for the middle class, they "taught the lessons of personal endurance, reliance on Providence, and acceptance of one's earthly status".
These included ski vacations, first-class air tickets to luxury resorts for himself and various relatives, personal flying lessons and hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash advances never accounted for.
