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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

~Leslie Stephen

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Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.

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The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

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If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

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Chance is a name for our ignorance.

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If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

~Leslie Stephen

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: November 28th, 1832

Died: February 22nd, 1904

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