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. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

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.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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