In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
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The matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.
I say that habit’s but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men’s nature in the end.
A vulgar mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694).
In spite of the fundamental importance of economic facts in determining politics and beliefs of an age or nation, I do not think that non-economic factors can be neglected without risks of error which may be fatal in practice.
We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach.
