"Pratical peopla have a way of saying "that has been tried, and failed." Why, of course it failed! Do you suppose everybody ever played off a piece of Right on the eternal piano without strikinf false notes at first?"
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"When people first try to walk with an Alpine pole, they always use it the wrong way. You show them the right way, which upon proceeding to practice, they as a matter of course, immediately get a very awkward fall (...). If they were "practical" people, they would immediately say in a grave manner "That has been tried, and failed". But most Alpine prospective walkers having some poetry in them, they say in an unpractical manner "Well, we'll try again", and thus, after a few more tumbles, come to be able to cross a glacier."
John Ruskin
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