Quote#Wisdom
The knowledge of others which experience gives us, is of slight value…
Quote byArthur Helps · 1813–1875
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd (1835), p. 67..
English (original)
The knowledge of others which experience gives us, is of slight value when compared with that which we obtain from having proved the inconstancy of our own desires.
— Arthur Helps
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