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"I said to him one day that the very slender reward which God had attached to the pursuit of serious inquiry was a sufficient proof that He disapproved of it, or at any rate that he did not set much store by it nor wish to encourage it."
— Samuel Butler
— Samuel Butler
"What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything."
— Laurence Sterne
— Laurence Sterne
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