“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. ”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“It is never too late to be wise.”
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 12, A Cave Retreat.
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