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Let us confess a truth, humiliating perhaps to human pride;—a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association—in short, by prejudice.

— Anna Laetitia Barbauld The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1825)

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If an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

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Man is the nobler growth our realms supply,
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We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true.

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Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

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