Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly. James Fenimore Cooper
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The wisdom of the ages, and the experience of men and women who have aged and seen life, often seem to be more valuable than the opinions of those who have not.

Source: The Last Of The Mohicans

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