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Whenever Anyone Has Offended Me, I Try To Raise My Soul So High That The Offense Cannot Reach It.

All Is To Be Doubted.

Be That As It May, There Is Fixed In My Mind A Certain Opinion Of Long Standing, Namely That There Exists A God Who Is Able To Do Anything And By Whom I, Such As I Am, Have Been Created. How Do I Know That He Did Not Bring It About That There Is No Earth At All, No Heavens, No Extended Thing, No Shape, No Size, No Place, And Yet Bringing It About That All These Things Appear To Me To Exist Precisely As They Do Now?

Good Sense Is, Of All Things Among Men, The Most Equally Distributed; For Every One Thinks Himself So Abundantly Provided With It, That Those Even Who Are The Most Difficult To Satisfy In Everything Else, Do Not Usually Desire A Larger Measure Of This Quality Than They Already Possess.

Bad Books Engender Bad Habits, But Bad Habits Engender Good Books.