When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

Horace Walpole
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  2. In science, mistakes always precede the truth.

  3. He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.

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