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单词 sadder but wiser
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  • I even present some statistical evidence for this cycle of unpleasant shocks followed by sadder-but-wiser recoveries.

    The End of World Violence?|Sam Harris|October 4, 2011|DAILY BEAST

sadder but wiser


Unhappy but having learned from one's mistakes, as in Sadder but wiser, she's never going near poison ivy again. The pairing of these two adjectives was first recorded in Samuel Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798).

Words nearby sadder but wiser

Sadat, Sadat, Anwar, sad case, Saddam Hussein, sadden, sadder but wiser, Saddharma-Pundarika, saddle, saddleback, saddleback caterpillar, saddle-backed
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