General System

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“The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.”
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