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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Isaac Barrow

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Isaac Barrow
Died: 1677
Died: May 4
Historian Of Mathematics
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
Theologian
University Teacher
London
England
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