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Quote by William Hazlitt
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shake

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. – William Hazlitt

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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols — it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. – William Hazlitt

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Id go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light Id take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. Thats how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques. – Herb Ritts

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