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One was Will Carlin, also fifty, and even more of a tinkerer and a self-improver than I was.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 18, 2016

Draper, 56, might have missed his calling as a Tony Robbins-type self-improver.

From BusinessWeek • Jul. 31, 2014

Here Suárez watched his team-mates lose a World Cup semi-final from the doghouse as Diego Forlán, that relentless self-improver, was deprived of his usual accomplice.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2010

And there was the Bobby who all his life was a boyishly relentless self-improver, a quester.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was a man of excellent character, steady, sensible, and patient, a diligent self-improver, a reader of books, a botanist, and a bit of a geologist.

From The Huguenots in France by Smiles, Samuel