"For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do."
"Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature."
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Source: Isaac Watts (1809). “Logic: Or, The Right Use of Reason, in the Inquiry After Truth”, p.7
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