Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
From William Hazlitt
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
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