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This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

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Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

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The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

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"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

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Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

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Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

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A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

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The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.

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The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

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But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

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I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

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Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

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The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

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But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

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Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

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Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.

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