To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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