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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Hosea Ballou

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Hosea Ballou
Age: 81 †
Born: 1771
Born: April 30
Died: 1852
Died: June 6
Author
Theologian
Writer
Richmond
New Hampshire
Virtue
Enemy
Wrong
Happiness
Often
Suspicion
Right
Unjust
Always
Friendship
Friend

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