By experience, says Roger Ascham, we find out a short way by a long wa…

Thomas Hardy
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By experience, says Roger Ascham, we find out a short way by a long wandering. Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then? ✨ Thomas Hardy (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated), p.3482, Delphi Classics
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