Quote by Denis Diderot
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable convent

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. – Denis Diderot

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. – Denis Diderot

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There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough to pay attention to the story. – Linda Hogan

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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. – Thomas Aquinas

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The mountains are calling and I must go. – John Muir

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