“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.”
— Graham Greene, book A Sort of Life
A Sort of Life, ch. 7, sct. 1 (1971)
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