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"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."
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"The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor."
Poor
"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
Mankind
"In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known."
Equality
"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil."
Virtue
"The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased."
People
"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."
Experience
"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."
Friendship
"The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes."
Man
"I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food."
Food
"No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever."
Earth
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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Personal Development
"And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs."
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Personal Development
"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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Personal Development
"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
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Personal Development
"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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Personal Development
"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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Personal Development
"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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Personal Development
"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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Personal Development
"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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Personal Development
"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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Personal Development
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