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In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.
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