"True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance."

-- Abigail Van Buren

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“Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.”
“It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.”
“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.”
“Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.”
“I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing of philosophy, and it leaves the philosopher with the task of grasping natures or essences (among other things).”
“The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
“People tend to think of fairy tales as archetypal. They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.”
“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.”

Source : Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.510, Booklassic

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