"For such Truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome."
- Thomas Hobbes

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"From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices."
- Joseph Priestley

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"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
- Seneca the Younger

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"There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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