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Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell
Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.57, Hackett Publishing
Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.110
The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.
H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.
Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.
Jeremy Bentham (1996). “The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation”, p.100, Clarendon Press
James Hillman, Thomas Moore (2013). “The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire”, p.24, Routledge
We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.
William S. Burroughs (2013). “The Adding Machine”, p.127, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1481, Delphi Classics
Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.148