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As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything.

Richard Whately

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Richard Whately
Age: 76 †
Born: 1787
Born: February 1
Died: 1863
Died: October 8
Economist
Philosopher
Priest
Theologian
London
England
Neither
Elevated
Head
Perpetually
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Haunted
Everybody
Suspicion
Live
Twilight
Everything
Perpetual
Suspicions
Much
Tone
Clearness
People
Morality
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