Experience has rude lessons, and we grow Like what we have been taught too late to know, And yet we hate ourselves for being so. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

Experience has rude lessons, and we grow Like what we have been taught too late to know, And yet we hate ourselves for being so.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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