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"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity."
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"Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?"

"There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty."

"There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness."

"My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business..."

"Not all questions can be answered."

"I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions."

"Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word."

"You think that you know what will happen... but think again!"
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"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"

"The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence."

"With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches."

"The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals."

"Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God."

"Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition."
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