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“This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.”

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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

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We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they give him…

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