“Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his…” Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.

In today’s wordsNobody will use other people's experience, and nobody has any of his own until it's too late to use it.

Source: From the book American Note-Books, Oct. 25, 1836, as quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (compiled by Anna L. Ward, 1889)

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is…