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Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.