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This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and ha

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"This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation"

- William Kingdon Clifford

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This quote is written / told by William Kingdon Clifford between May 4, 1845 and March 3, 1879. He/she was a famous Mathematician from England. The author also have 23 other quotes.

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