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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Approximate author period: c. 1684 AD · renaissance

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Isaac Newton
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Approximate author period: c. 1684 AD · renaissance
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