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Leslie Stephen [1832-1904] English
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Sir Leslie Stephen KCB was an English author, critic, historian, biographer, and mountaineer, and father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.

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If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt. God
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Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.
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The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
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Chance is a name for our ignorance.
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If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
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