Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fab…

Charles Caleb Colton
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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, p.90
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