All our geese are swans.
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Section 2, member 3, subsection 14.Robert Burton
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Let the long contention cease!
Geese are swans, and swans are geese.Matthew Arnold
Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd: Whatever sooths our Pride, and tends to exalt our Species above the rest of the Creation, we are pleas'd with and easily believe, when ungrateful Truths shall be with the utmost Indignation rejected. "What! bring ourselves down to an Equality with the Beasts of the Field! with the meanest part of the Creation! 'Tis insufferable!" But, (to use a Piece of common Sense) our Geese are but Geese tho' we may think 'em Swans; and Truth will be Truth tho' it sometimes prove mortifying and distasteful.
Benjamin Franklin
...no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.
Karl Popper
What a dull world if we knew all about geese!
Aldo Leopold
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