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"The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?"
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"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."
"I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose."
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"The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit."
"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed."
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