Direct Benefit

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“An inexperienced heraldist resembles a medieval traveler who brings back from the East the faunal fantasies influenced by the domestic bestiary he possessed all along rather than by the results of direct zoological exploration.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“Often they benefit who suffer wrong.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)