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" Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. "

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" There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves. "

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" What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. "

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