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Thomas Hobbes Quotes: All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
         

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.


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