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“ Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. ”

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...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

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Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes, but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

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Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

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Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.

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