Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prep…

Samuel Butler
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world. ✨ Samuel Butler (2015). Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated), p.4163, Delphi Classics
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