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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury Quotes

English politician and Earl (1671-1713)

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (February 26 1671 – February 4 1713) was an English philosopher and politician.

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Alternative Names: Anthony Ashley • Anthony Ashley, Earl Cooper • Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury

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Similar: Aristotle 50.1% William Hazlitt 48.9% David Hume 48.3% Joseph Addison 48.2% Edwin Percy Whipple 47.5% Francis Bacon 46.7% Plato 46.6% Blaise Pascal 46.5% Friedrich Nietzsche 46.5% George Santayana 46.4%
Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.

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