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As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury
Age: 66 †
Born: 1938
Born: May 22
Died: 2004
Died: November 5
Aristocrat
Conservationist
Philanthropist
Politician
London
England
Accidental
Substantial
Random
Humor
May
Nothing
Real
Life
Governs

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Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to make a show of colours... to raise a separate and flattering pleasure to the sense.
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Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.
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All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.
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