Quote by Eugene Delacroix
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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I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict. – Eugene Delacroix

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People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor. – Norman Douglas

I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. – Edward W. Howe

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! – Thomas Babington Macaulay

Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things. – Samuel Johnson

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