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If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

William Godwin

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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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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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Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.
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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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Invisible things are the only realities invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
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If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.
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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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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
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He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.
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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
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In a well-written book we are presented with the maturest reflections, or the happiest flights of a mind of uncommon excellence. It is impossible that we can be much accustomed to such companions without attaining some resemblance to them.
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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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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
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Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
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My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
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