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It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.

Frederic Farrar

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Frederic Farrar
Age: 71 †
Born: 1831
Born: August 7
Died: 1903
Died: March 22
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Classical Scholar
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Bombay
Frederic William Farrar
Frederick William Farrar
Very Rev. Frederick William Farrar
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