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“What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe!”
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- Source:
- Thoughts. Chap. x. 1.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 9864b33f832563a2460621be1a829d69fadab715f6651a16d57cb6348b3392b8
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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