Of all Discourse, governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End, either by attaining, or by giving over. (Thomas Hobbes)

Of all Discourse, governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End, either by attaining, or by giving over.

Thomas Hobbes

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