Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Between Age And Youth

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1892, tr. Mrs. Annis Lee Wister (Masterpieces of German Literature, vol. 13, p. 434):

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

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