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"Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ."
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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
"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."
"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
"General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves."
"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers."
"Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny."
"Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown."
"It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential."
"If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance."
"However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly."
"There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being."
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