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Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.
James Boswell
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James Boswell
Age: 54 †
Born: 1740
Born: October 18
Died: 1795
Died: May 19
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Edinburgh
Scotland
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Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.
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