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All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.
All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.
Approximate author period: c. 1804 AD · industrial
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- William Hazlitt
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- Approximate author period: c. 1804 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1778 to 1830; Wikidata Q126596, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126596 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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