"I hope I've spent the last seven and a half years growing a little wiser."
After all these years, she had not grown wiser, or better.
We grow wise, you and I, but in wisdom there is often pain.
The sister grew wise beyond her years in the clash of politics.
What is the use of living so long if one hasn't grown wise?
Some people learn from their past, grow better and wiser.
In a sense Sue feels they've grown wiser together over the years.
He wants you to grow strong and wise, to rule Sweetwater after him.
It was like a teacher trying to trick an old pupil who had grown too wise.
Or was it because she had suddenly grown too old and wise for fairyland.