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"Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want."
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"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."

"The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything."

"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."

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"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."

"That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy."

"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead."
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