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God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed...

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An Agnostic's Apology and Other Essays

No good story is quite true.

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

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Leslie Stephen

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Born: 1832-11-28

Died: 1904-02-22

Sir Leslie Stephen KCB (28 November 1832 – 22 February 1904) was an English writer on philosophy and literary history. He was also one of the leading British mountaineers of his generation, the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, Thackeray's son-in-law and Virginia Woolf's father.More