self-worsening

Updated: May 27, 2025

In the broad and full sense of the phrase self-improvement, a course of self-worsening might improve them. I have known men and everybody has known them who would approach nearer to perfection if they could only acquire a little carelessness, a little absent-mindedness, a little illogicalness, a little irrational and infantile gaiety, a little unscrupulousness in the matter of the time of day.

Arnold Bennett - The Plain Man and His Wife