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Too much noise deafens us; too much light blinds us; too great a distance or too much of proximity equally prevents us from being able to see; too long and too short a discourse obscures our knowledge of a subject; too much of truth stuns us.
Too much noise deafens us; too much light blinds us; too great a distance or too much of proximity equally prevents us from being able to see; too long and too short a discourse obscures our knowledge of a subject; too much of truth stuns us.
Approximate author period: c. 1642 AD · renaissance
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- Blaise Pascal
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- Approximate author period: c. 1642 AD · renaissance
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 79 · printed citation: Pascal · subject: Excess
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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