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Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation.

— William Winwood Reade The Martyrdom of Man (1872)

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If indeed there were a judgment-day, it would be for man to appear at the bar not as a criminal but as accuser.

The Martyrdom of Man (1872)

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.

The Martyrdom of Man (1872)

A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.

The Martyrdom of Man (1872)

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

The Martyrdom of Man (1872)

What a state of society is this in which free-thinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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