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• The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to…
• The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal…
• Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
• Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of…
• The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion,…
• If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine; if you…
• In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king,…
• Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

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