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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).

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And more I cannot explain/but you, from what I did not say/will infer what I do not say.
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And there is always the easy-but-true charge of Hollywood hypocrisy.
Russell Brand’s Revolution For Morons|Michael Moynihan|November 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was the U2/iTunes team-up years before it happened, only far sadder.
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Sheets of bright-but-not-too-bright blue streaked with thin clouds.
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He describes himself as “lonelier, but wiser, with a bit of rage in me.”
Meet Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, aka L. Jinny, the Ali G of Evil|Olivia Nuzzi|August 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
Pearls of Thought|Maturin M. Ballou
Needless to say, the Worcestershire baronet had returned to his ancestral acres a sadder but a wiser man.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Perhaps their course is wiser than that which hot impatience would prompt—nay, I believe it is.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
It was with the utmost difficulty that his wiser subordinates got him to disarm the sepoy regiments in Agra itself.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
It was well that Monsieur de Biancourt was wiser than many of his crew, whose sole cry was to kill them all.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various

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