“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms
Source: A Farewell to Arms (1929)
“Great men are not born great, they grow great…”
Source: The Godfather
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“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.”
William Shakespeare Twelfth Night
Malvolio, Act II, scene v.
Variant: Some are born great, others achieve greatness.
Source: Twelfth Night (1601)
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in Vers l’armée de métier.
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