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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

— M. H. Abrams

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. " in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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M. H. Abrams

About M. H. Abrams

Meyer (Mike) Howard Abrams (23 July 1912 – 22 April 2015) was an American literary critic, known for works on Romanticism, in particular his book The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (1971).