Our knowledge of human nature is for the most part empirica… - Arthur Helps

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Our knowledge of human nature is for the most part empirical; and it would often be better, if, instead of endeavouring to say some new things ourselves, we were to confirm without more words the sayings of another.

Arthur Helps

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Sir Arthur Helps (10 July 1813 – 7 March 1875) was an English writer and dean of the Privy Council.

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François de La Rochefoucauld Jean de La Bruyère Samuel Butler Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Samuel Johnson

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