John Buchan book A Lodge in the Wilderness
Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. XI, pp. 313–4
“In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.”
The Snow-Image, and Other Tales, Preface http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/sipf.html (1852)
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Context: Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
