Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

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It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

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Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

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To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

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Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

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History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.

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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

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Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

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