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“ Explain this happening !”

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“ It must have a ‘ natural ’ cause.”

“ It must have a ‘ supernatural ’ cause.” these two asses be set to grind corn.

May, might, must, should, probably, may be, we may safely assume, ought, it is hardly questionable, almost certainly—poor hacks ! let them be turned out to grass !

Proof is only possible in mathematics, and mathematics is only a matter of arbitrary conventions.

And yet doubt is a good servant but a bad master ; a perfect mistress, but a nagging wife.

“ White is white ” is the lash of the overseer : “ white is black ” is the watchword of the slave. The Master takes no heed.

The Chinese cannot help thinking that the octave has 5 notes.

The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the more certain it is that I only assert a limitation.

I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking ; I drank and danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning.