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“There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.”
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“If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.”
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“In the matters of religion, it is very hard to
deceive a man, and very hard to undeceive him.”
― Historical and Critical Dictionary: Selections
deceive a man, and very hard to undeceive him.”
― Historical and Critical Dictionary: Selections
“So miserable is human destiny that the lights which deliver man from one evil throw him into another.”
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