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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ✨ Prejudices, Third Series ch. 14 (1922)
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ✨ Prejudices, Third Series ch. 14 (1922)

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