The knowledge of others which experience gives us, is of slight value when compared with that which we obtain from having proved the inconstancy of our own desires. (Arthur Helps)

The knowledge of others which experience gives us, is of slight value when compared with that which we obtain from having proved the inconstancy of our own desires.

Arthur Helps

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