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It may be said likewise in respect of perfect wisdom, which is no less orderly than mathematics, that if there were not the best among all possible worlds, God would not have produced any.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Theodicy

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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God and Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil. 1710, pt. 1.

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Men are vile inconstant toads.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Letter to Anne Justice. c. 12 June 1710.

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Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. "Letter to Anne Justice." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Selected Letters. Penguin Books, 1997.

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There is a very pretty Collection of Prints in the next Room, Madam, will you give me leave to explain them to you?

Susanna Centlivre

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Centlivre, Susannah. The Man's Bewitch'd; or, The Devil to do about Her. Performed by John Bowman and John Mills and Benjamin Husband and Robert Wilks. 12 Dec. 1709, Queen's Theatre, Haymarket, London, England, UK, act 3.

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All the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth-in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world-have not any subsistence without a mind... Their being is to be perceived or known.

George Berkeley

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

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Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Dublin: Jeremy Pepat, 1710, sect. 6.

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Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, edited by Kenneth P. Winkler. Hackett Publishing Company, 1982, sect. 6.

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What do we perceive besides our own ideas or sensations?

George Berkeley

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Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Dublin: Jeremy Pepat, 1710, sect. 4.

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Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, edited by Kenneth P. Winkler. Hackett Publishing Company, 1982, sect. 4.

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