“Experience is a wonderful teacher, but one whose lessons come too late.”
Volume 2: In Green's Jungles (2000), Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)
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Letter to Lord Londonderry (6 May 1936), quoted in Martin Gilbert, Prophet of Truth: Winston S. Churchill, 1922–1939 (London: Minerva, 1990), p. 733
The 1930s
“Experience may be a bitter teacher, but She is a good one.”
Source: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 1 (p. 19)
