What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom f…

William Blake
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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. ✨ William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). Blake: The Complete Poems, p.337, Pearson Education
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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. ✨ William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). Blake: The Complete Poems, p.337, Pearson Education

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