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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury Quotes

All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.

All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury
Understanding, Liberty, Rust
"Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times". Book by Anthony Ashley-Cooper; Edition by Philip Ayres (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999) Vol. 1, pp. 39-40; "Sensus Communis", 1711.

As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury
Real, May, Knows

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury
Truth, Powerful, Fiction

Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to make a show of colours... to raise a separate and flattering pleasure to the sense.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury
Real, Helping, Painting

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