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Value Quotes by William Hazlitt
- The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
- To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
- As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become…
- Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
- I conceive that words are like money, not the worse for being common, but that it is the stamp of custom alone that gives them…
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- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
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