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“Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.”
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- Source:
- Bias. v.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b8cb963f0bffa75d47b0eb023e49bc35fa06600e7c25ed7a78549023dacd947a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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