“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms (1929)
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
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Ernest Hemingway
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A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
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