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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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