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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
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Massachusetts
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
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