A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a d…

John Henry Newman
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. ✨ Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (1844). Sermons: Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief, p.182, Aeterna Press
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. ✨ Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (1844). Sermons: Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief, p.182, Aeterna Press

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