Quote #11

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

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  1. The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.
  2. Hope For Appetite with an opinion of attaining, is called HOPE. Despaire The same, without such opinion, DESPAIRE.
  3. :Science is the knowledge of Consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another:
  4. Desire, to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; bu…
  5. :Understanding being nothing else, but conception caused by Speech.
  6. The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, prophane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame, or blame:
  7. Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotl…
  8. The 'value' or 'worth' of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.

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