Philosophers are as jealous as women each wants a monopoly of praise
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England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors
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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
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