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What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
William Godwin
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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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Cambridgeshire
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Study with desire is real activity without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
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In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.... An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish their opinions is of all kinds of despotism the most odious: yet this is peculiarly character of a period of revolution.... There is no period more at war with the existence of liberty.
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