Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

Staring into the dragon's maw, one quickly learns wisdom.

I tend to close my eyes when I look at people anymore.

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing.

I’ve heard it said: ‘By his home you shall know him’; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone who reverses the subject and auxiliary verb in his sentence.

In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the ones we hated, friends and foes and kin, with no distinction among them. We have to mourn every one of them, because our memories have made them as much a part of us as our bones or our skin. If we don't, we've no right to remember anything at all.