I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice. (W. Somerset Maugham)

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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