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Experience Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
- Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
- There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
- The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces,…
- Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling…
- Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
- Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up…
- The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth…
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