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"There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought."
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"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."

"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."

"Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void."
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"It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false."

"There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought."

"I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done."

"It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling."

"There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought."
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