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The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.
By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.' 'I shall be delighted.' 'You don't mind breaking the law?' 'Not in the least.' 'Nor running a chance of arrest?' 'Not in a good cause.' 'Oh, the cause is excellent!' 'Then I am your man.' 'I was sure that I might rely on you.
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It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.
"My books are friends that never fail me."
(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)