Quote #68

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

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  3. Not far from the invention of fire must rank the invention of doubt.
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  5. God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
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  7. '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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