become wise
Example Sentences
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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
Let us live with our children: so shall their lives bring peace and joy to us; so shall we begin to be and to become wise.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
