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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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