"To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness."

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"To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness."

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"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."

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"A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is."

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