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We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. . . . Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident.

Source: On the Predominant Principles and Excitements in the Human Mind, published in Examiner (London, 26 Feb. 1815; repr. in Collected Works, ed. by A. R. Waller and Arnold Glover, vol. 11, 1904).
-- 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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