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I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain't so.
Appearances are oft deceiving, and seeing shouldn't always be believing.
Where thou art obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth.
The greatest friend of truth is Time; her greatest enemy is Prejudice.
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy.
Let opinion be taken away, and no man will think himself wronged.
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.
When we have the decrees of Nature, authority goes for nothing; reason is absolute.
I count myself happy, in the search after truth, to have so great an ally as yourself, and one who is so great a friend of the truth itself.
I have collected many arguments for the purpose of refuting the latter; but I do not venture to bring them to the light of publicity, for fear of sharing the fate of our master, Copernicus, who, although he has earned immortal fame with some, yet with very many has become an object of ridicule and scorn.
I shall only add a promise to peruse your book dispassionately, and with a conviction that I shall find in it much to admire.
Oxford has never loved Commissioners revising her statutes and reforming her schools.
It is wrong in all cases to believe on insufficient evidence.
There it is worse than presumption to believe.
They will sit in judgment on books written in languages of whose very alphabets they are ignorant.
They will pose as authorities and pronounce ex cathedrâ on subjects literary, historical, and scientific of which they know nothing more than what they have contrived to pick up from the works which they are "reviewing."
Books displaying in their writers the grossest ignorance of the very rudiments of the subjects treated, and literally swarming with blunders and absurdities, all of which pass undetected and unnoticed, are made the subjects of elaborate panegyrics.
Books, on the other hand, of unusual and distinguished merit are despatched summarily in a few lines of equally undeserved depreciation.