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There never was a great truth but it was reverenced never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

Theodore Parker

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Theodore Parker
Age: 49 †
Born: 1810
Born: August 24
Died: 1860
Died: May 10
Theologian
Lexington
Massachusetts
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Mankind
Reverenced
Truth
Institution
Great
Sooner
Never
Reverence
Men
Receive
Greatness
Institutions

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