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It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.

— Richard Bentley

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Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not to the power of God, but to the fortuitous concourse of atoms.

The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms.

“Whatever is, is not,” is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.

I hold it as certain, that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.

It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope; but you must not call it Homer.

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