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Author name:
"Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)"
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"Mineral"
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"Materialist or Mortalist"
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"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1748, 1749
Wherefore a soul of clay, capable of discerning at one glance, the relations, and consequences of an infinite number of ideas, that are difficult to apprehend, would be evidently preferable to a heavy and stupid soul, formed of the most precious elements."
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Date: 1748, 1749
"Wit contracts rust amongst those that have none."
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Date: 1748, 1749
"Words, languages, laws, sciences, and the liberal arts were introduced in time, and by them the rough diamond of our understanding was polished."
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