“The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.”
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“We know that we are not dreaming, but, however unable we may be to prove it rationally, our inability proves nothing but the weakness of our reason, and not the uncertainty of all our knowledge as they maintain.”
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