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But hardly any young man destitute of experience is able to separate end and means.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “But hardly any young man destitute of experience is able to separate end and means.”
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Bagehot notes that inexperienced young men often struggle to distinguish between their goals and the methods to achieve them.
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