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A wise man is nothing but a fool with a good memory.
— Russel Greene · Promised Land
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker offers a deflating definition: wisdom is not a different kind of mind from foolishness, only foolishness that has retained its lessons. A wise person is someone who has made the same sort of mistakes as everyone else but remembers them well enough not to repeat them.
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