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La Rochefoucauld 405: We reach quite inexperienced the different stages of life, and often, in spit...
larochefoucauld maxims
We reach quite inexperienced the different stages of life, and often, in spite of the number of our years, we lack experience. ["To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illumine only the track it has passed."-- Coleridge.]
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_405
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