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If you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.

— John Fowles

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "If you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did." in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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John Fowles

About John Fowles

John Robert Fowles (31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist and essayist.