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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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The thing is plain. 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.
Source: On the Ignorance of the Learned, in Edinburgh Magazine (July 1818; repr. in Table Talk, 1821).-- William Hazlitt, (Apr 10 1778-1830), English writer, essayist; He wrote Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, 1817; also noted for essays on value of humanity.
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