“There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.”
F. H. Bradley (1846–1924) British philosopher
No. 20.
Aphorisms (1930)
“When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.”
"On The Spirit of Controversy," The Atlas (30 January 1830), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)
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