Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, be…

James Madison
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Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself. ✨ James Madison (1867). 1769-1793, p.510
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Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself. ✨ James Madison (1867). 1769-1793, p.510

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