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The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.


Lord Kelvin

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LORD BYRON If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
LORD BYRON Absence - that common cure of love.
LORD BYRON Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
LORD LONGFORD God help the patient.
LORD MANSFIELD The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
LORD SHAWCROSS You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press...
LORD BUCKLEY I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimatel...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ...
LORD JEFFREY Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
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