The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
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I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
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Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
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