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Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

Samuel Smiles

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Samuel Smiles
Age: 91 †
Born: 1812
Born: December 23
Died: 1904
Died: April 16
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East Lothian
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Peculiar
Instinct
Conscience

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