Wallace Stegner quote: The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

~ Wallace Stegner ~

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The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

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