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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed in the second it is opposed in the third it is regarde...more

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One should use common words to say uncommon things

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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.

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Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything wo...more

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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

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If human nature were not base, but thoroughly honourable, we should in every debate have no other aim than the discovery of truth; we should not in th...more

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A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either in the matter about which he has t...more

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Truth is most beautiful undraped.

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Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.