• When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

  Marianne Moore
  American poet 1887-1972
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. experience
2. temptation
3. minimized
4. appraisal
5. appraiser
6. useful

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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. by : Marianne Moore

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