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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

— Michel de Montaigne Essais (1571)

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They make me hate things that are likely, when they would impose them upon me as infallible.

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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

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What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

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God's justice and His power are inseparable; 'tis in vain we invoke His power in an unjust cause.

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Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

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