Your comment reminds me of this passage:

“Oh, my dear, ’tis sad, a very sad world! — While under our parents’ protecting wings, we know nothing at all of it. Book-learned and a scribbler, and looking at people as I saw them as visitors or visiting, I thought I knew a great deal of it. Pitiable ignorance! — Alas! I knew nothing at all!”

Clarissa, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, 1194