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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
William Godwin
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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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Invisible things are the only realities invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
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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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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
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The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
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