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Richard Bentley

1662 AD — 1742 AD

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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Historical source references

Monk's Life of Bentley
Declaration of Rights
Sermons, vii

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01c. 1702 AD

It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.

Richard Bentley / quote

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02c. 1702 AD

"Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.

Richard Bentley / quote

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03c. 1702 AD

The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms.

Richard Bentley / quote

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