We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thou…

John Steinbeck
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We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain. ✨ John Steinbeck (1980). Travels with Charley in Search of America, p.64, Penguin
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