“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)
“Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.”
— John Buchan, book A Lodge in the Wilderness
Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. XI, pp. 313–4
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