To whom is the quote below credited?

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Who said "Man is nasty, brutish and short?"

-- Krishnakumar (kishku_km@hotmail.com), July 27, 2001

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Thomas Hobbes, in _Leviathan_, wrote that in a state of nature "the life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

-- Raymond Fancher (fancher@yorku.ca), July 27, 2001.

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