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Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
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