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““No doubt they thought that by allowing themselves to become martyrs to their nerves they were giving proof of a fine stoicism, just as by living in a continual rush they produced in their own minds an illusion of activity.””

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Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

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