Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
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Sentences are not as such either true or false.
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But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.
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