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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naiveté. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. Henri Matisse		Thursday May 21, 2026
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Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived? Bishop Joseph Butler

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	Bishop Joseph Butler
	(1692-1752) Preface to Analogy - English theologian, bishop of Bristol.

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To us probability is the very guide of life. To John Wesley: Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing. Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?