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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

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

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

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

Born: May 22, 1938

Died: November 5, 2004 (aged 66)

Bio: Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury Bt, styled Lord Ashley between 1947 and 1961, and Earl of Shaftesbury from 1961 until his death, was a British peer from Wimborne St Giles, Dorset, England.

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