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- Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today, and that you…
- ... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased from the open…
- ..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they…
- How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be the foundation of…
- ..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience; and…
- It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that…
- Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected…
- I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
- We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our…
- How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the…
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