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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."

"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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"A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer."

"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."

"There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches."
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