become wise
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By the time you become wise enough to do it, you’re too old to do it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2018
Shops have become wise to the growing number of novice green thumbs.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2017
“I say that proudly. That’s the third stage of a woman’s life, and that’s when we can become wise women.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2017
De Botton claims in Consolations that it is possible to “take on a task at once both profound and laughable: to become wise through philosophy.”
From Salon ● May 13, 2013
No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.
From On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
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