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The I is worthy of aversion when it is principally confined to the person who uses it.

The I is worthy of aversion when it is principally confined to the person who uses it.

Approximate author period: c. 1642 AD · renaissance

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Author or tradition
Blaise Pascal
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Approximate author period: c. 1642 AD · renaissance
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Life and Literature (copyright 1910) (1910 AD)

Number 951 · printed citation: Pascal

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Blaise Pascal: Later painted likeness, circa 1690

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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