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Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must corr

Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much. – Eugene Delacroix

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What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough. – Eugene Delacroix

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If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done. – Lord Melbourne

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The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist. – Aldous Huxley

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People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, — that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it. – John Jay Chapman

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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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