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Invisible things are the only realities invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

William Godwin

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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
Political Philosopher
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Wisbech
Cambridgeshire
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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
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Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
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He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.
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What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
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