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― Pride and Prejudice
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“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
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“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
― The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713
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