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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense a substitute for true knowledge.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
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Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
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