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- No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were…
- I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many…
- Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
- A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
- Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
- There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
- To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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