“We are all fools sometimes, child, yet a wise woman learns to limit how often.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Lelaine Akashi to Nynaeve al'Meara
(15 October 1994)
“We learn the most from fools … yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 85
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