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A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers. – Patrick Kavanagh

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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men. – Patrick Kavanagh

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Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. – Eric Hoffer

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. – G. W. F. Hegel

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. – Ezra Pound

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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. – Joseph Roux

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By others faults the wise correct their own. – Proverb

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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. – Zora Neale Hurston

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