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Quote by Denis Diderot
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. – Denis Diderot

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Every man has his dignity. Im willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to. – Denis Diderot

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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. – Denis Diderot

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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf. – William Osler

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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does. – Johann von Goethe

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