Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Quote

A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance.


Desultory Thoughts and Reflections (1839)


A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the...

A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the...

A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the...

A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the...