Quote #8

:Understanding being nothing else, but conception caused by Speech.

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  3. The condition of Man...is a condition of Warre of every one against every one.
  4. The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.
  5. Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
  6. Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
  7. :in the state of nature, Profit is the measure of Right.
  8. Hope For Appetite with an opinion of attaining, is called HOPE. Despaire The same, without such opinion, DESPAIRE.

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