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"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience."
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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
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"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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"We just had a near-life experience!"
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
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"It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests."
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"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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"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
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"We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours."
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"Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character."
Age
"We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways."
Nature
"A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health."
Health
"You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own."
People
"If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any."
Chance
"Reason is the servant of instinct."
Instinct
"If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours."
Man
"The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation."
Animals
"Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality."
Reality
"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing."
Art
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