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"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
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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."
"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."
"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."
"Religion is an experience, not a bunch of doctrines."
"You, the unhappy young! Try to take a leaf out of the old happy's book!"
"What is written is merely the dregs of experience."
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"He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs. Cadwallader."
"You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing."
"She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception."
"Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."
"A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought."
"In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little."
"If we had lost our own chief good, other people's good would remain, and that is worth trying for."
"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder."
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