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Thought for the day
It may be confidently asserted that no man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. And the desire of rectifying these mistakes, is the noble ambition of an enlightened understanding, the impulse of feelings that Philosophy invigorates.
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Published on this day
- 1998 Skellig by David Almond
- 1602 Thomas Lord Cromwell by William Shakespeare
- 1963 The Secret by Arthur C. Clarke
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