I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat…

W. Somerset Maugham
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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice. ✨ W. Somerset Maugham (2016). Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics), p.352, Diversion Books
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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice. ✨ W. Somerset Maugham (2016). Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics), p.352, Diversion Books

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