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Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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