truth
A selected quote by John Churton Collins.
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.
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I think, therefore I am.
All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
It is never too late to be wise.
... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth
Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.