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He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

William Godwin

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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
Journalist
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Philosopher
Political Philosopher
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Wisbech
Cambridgeshire
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The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.
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The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive the right in certain cases to do as we list and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. The first of these a just philosophy will probably induce us universally to explode.
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Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
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Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
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Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.
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There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
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The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.
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Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.
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The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
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