Imprecations Quotes by William Godwin

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• Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common…
• Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
• My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing…
• Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
• Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
• Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.
• Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.
• The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

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