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“Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.”
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- Source:
- Discourses. Chap. xxvii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- fd6ad3e9542266f606fc0aa7a1c0d4d492d8497140d7179bcadc19f0615fdfae
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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