Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were me… - Immanuel Kant

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Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.

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Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804), born Emanuel Kant, was a German philosopher.

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There can be only one reason why we must do what duty demands, and that is that we demand it of ourselves.

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