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Quote by William Hazlitt
If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation. – William Hazlitt

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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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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may. – William Hazlitt

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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. – Hosea Ballou

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The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler. – Lord Chesterfield

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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. – Denis Diderot

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Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of speculation; but which ought to be called Gambling. – William Cobbett

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